Restructuring the Education System to Create Job Creators Rather than Job Seekers

Restructuring the Education System to Create Job Creators Rather than Job Seekers
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Restructuring the Education System to Create Job Creators Rather than Job Seekers
The education system has largely been pegged on industrial age job market needs. The model has been successful especially in the past centuries but times have changed and the world has entered the information age. Thus, most of the industrial approaches to education are ineffective and irrelevant to the modern society. Industrial age job market prompted training students to get ‘well-paying’ jobs and that approach necessitated pedagogical processes that aimed at preparing learners for employment. Most education systems around the world overlooked the learner’s talents, abilities, interests and creativity and limit them to rote learning for specific jobs. This pedagogical process over-emphasized on white collar jobs, and it has creating a vacuum in blue collar jobs though some experts claim they will be automated in the near future. However, in the information age, the nature of the job market has become dynamic, and it has become less dependent on the industrially-modelled education system. The notion that learners ought to be prepared for specific jobs has created academic inflation, and the academic bar keeps going up for students to clear to land better chances of landing a good job CITATION Kro17 \l 1033 (Kromydas, 2017). In order to restructure the education system to produce job creators rather than job seekers, pedagogical processes of learning should be aligned with the unique needs of the learner such that they cultivate creativity, have subjects’ equity and identify and nurture each learner’s talents.
To avoid the current problems and issues that have been created by the existent education system, it needs to be restructured to equally recognize art subjects. STEM subjects have been overly emphasized, facilitated and continually improved in their pedagogical approach at the expense of art subjects. To address this problem, all subjects should be accorded the same value on the job market and students should be encouraged to pursue their interest irrespective of its perceived ranking. This strategy can be implemented by properly facilitating arts subjects and emphasizing their importance. Students who gravitate to arts willingly usually do so to follow their passion and they find their niche sooner. Such students go on to become entrepreneurs in the art-based subjects and create employment for others. Since they are more likely to be satisfied with their jobs, they find ways to grow their startups CITATION Lüt03 \l 1033 (Lüthje & Franke, 2003). Thus, restructuring the education system to give equal recognition and facilitation of learning art subjects whilst encouraging them to tap into their creativity can help create more job creators than job seekers.
Additionally, it is crucial to note that the current education model overrides talents and individual interests and forces them to study for subjects they are not interested in CITATION Nab10 \l 1033 (Nabi, Holden, & Walmsley, 2010). They find their work uninteresting and do it for the paycheckCITATION Lüt03 \l 1033 ...