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Full Length Research Paper
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Quest for a
better operation system in education: Privatization and
teacher educationalization or voucherilization glimpsing
from consumer and product perspectives
Gazi Mahabubul Alam*, Kazi Enamul
Hoque and Oloruntegbe Kunle Oke
Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
*Corresponding author. E-mail:
gazi.alam@um.edu.my. Tel:
+ 603-7967 5077, Fax: + 603-7967 5010.
Accepted 17 May, 2010 |
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Abstract |
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Inevitably, education is considered as the main tool for
development. Regardless of nationality, race, age and culture,
everyone in this contemporary world believes that education is
the commonest medicine that cures every disease hindering the
development of a nation. Keeping this view, countries put
endless efforts in the development of education. Major phenomena
for the development process of education include: privatization,
teacher education, design of modern and well-timed course and
curricula and establishment of infrastructure and logistics. For
the allocation of national budget, most of the states provide
the highest preference to education. Despite these efforts, many
countries fail to achieve the target that is especially aimed
for their national development through education. Why is this
happening, since the purpose of education is to ensure national
development? Encompassing of many research findings sums up that
education is not playing the role according to its purpose.
Thus, many prescriptions have been provided through researches
with an ideology of “Education as Right” to solve the problems.
All these suggestions are still unsuccessful to make the
education system desired functional. The conducted research for
this paper has to understand what would be the difference if
students do not consider education as their rights, but do judge
it as their assets and property. Results assert that this
attitude would be able to change the psychological setup of poor
students developing an ownership attitude toward education. This
would irrevocably help to achieve the national goal of
education. However, a new paradigm called voucherilization would
be the key for the change of psychological and mental current
setup of the underprivileged students.
Key words:
Voucher system, privatization, free education, education as
right, education as product, education as asset. |
