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This is my view about the Debate 4 from the topic “DO SCHOOLS CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY COHESION?”

From the 8^th edition of Oxford Advanced Dictionary social carries the meaning of connecting activities in which people meet each other for pleasure. On the other hand, cohesion is the act or state of keeping together. Social cohesion means the activities in which people meet each other for pleasure of keeping together. Social cohesion brings positive impact of keeping a group of people close to each other but too close could bring negative impact to multicultural and multiracial world to fall apart. It is believed that schools carry the responsibility to form particular community and social cohesion.

To my understanding from this debate that schools have developed students who criticises their peers and labelling them. “More recently, teachers and pupil in schools have been instructed to monitor (implicitly) Asian and Muslim students (as shown in the ‘Extremism toolkit’ recently issued to schools; DCSF,2008)”. It is unfair to label someone just because of their race or religion although they are somewhat “extremist”. But anger arose from fear. To my point of view, these rules can never abolish social cohesion through labels but it could happen with a helping hand. Help other religions and race to understand and expose them to other people. Show them that the world is harmless and we are all the same.

"Equality cannot be attained without destroying the current regime of cohesion" as stated by John Preston. Therefore, believe that educational equity needs to be allowed all over the world and everybody has to accept other people, respect, understand and contribute in the vast racial or religion community. In this country, the different races respect each other. Celebrate every occasions together, eat together and are neighbours but they do not want to understand each others’ cultural and religion. All the underlying issues are kept shut and sugar coated with goodness. Now that is the problem, not trying to understand each other. That is the reason of anger and debates going on against each other. Now this value of understanding, has to be instilled in school !

The challenges of post-modernisation are indeed, social cohesion. Especially in education, why ? because there is no consideration of various people in the same educational system. In school, we need to break the regimes and mix them up towards different troops of people from different backgrounds. As schools “indeed in classical writings on education, schooling emphasised as being centrally important in promoting the sorts of citizenship which would encourage conservative forms of social integration (Rousseau, 1991).

The government, policy-makers, ministry of education and all else that is involved needs to create a curriculum is schools that caters to every culture & regions needs. Cater to full equity so that everyone can experience the same educational system, can experience multicultural friends and is able to accept and understand each other. We can produce generations with ample amount of knowledge and morality to understand others, not like now where everyone has issues with each other.

Make the world a better place ! And it starts at SCHOOL !

-Wily-