S.A.T. Framework in Education
By: Anupreeta Chatterjee
Tags: Education, Education Reform, Framework, Educational, Theory

In the ocean of commandment of life, education is a tool to rediscover oneself. The notion of free will and freedom to express one’s own standpoint is how knowledge system has advanced so far. Yet, we tend to adhere to restrictions imposed on our bodily existence. The senses rule the mind that regulates our perceptions and thoughts. It is essential to question, why we are not able to set our minds free. Indeed, we are not ruled by the infinite wisdom on which our existence may thrive.

Education should have allowed us to explore our minds that has the potential to uncover new discoveries. Yet, we push each other into a system of oppression that seems mild at first but ends with a complete loss of human values. Regulations are outfits that don’t suit creative minds. Education should be participatory and creative. We study some random metaphysics of educational practices and forget to practice what we teach or preach. Somehow, in the gamble of life we lost the decorum of being sensitive towards each other’s needs. Alas! Education system ruined the creativity among individuals who can change the worldviews.

Well, some people have commented on my failures and stated that if I stop composing poems for a while, I might get a ‘golden’ chance to get my topic approved for research. I hope they will understand that without soul searching, research could never happen. Rather, one of the objectives of doing research is to know oneself better and polish our understanding of the field in a significant manner. But these customized hierarchical relationships in university campuses erodes the sense of doing a ‘good’ research.

Without soul, mind can’t work. Is it not enough to say this? Yet, morphing ideas has been a common practice heralded by minds who call themselves theorists. They would work on other’s ideas rather, snatch ideas from their own research community and type it in their ‘honourable’ names. So, research ethics don’t apply here. Ah! I remember Antony’s speech in the Shakespeare’s marvelous play, ‘Julius Caesar’. Thus, while commenting on the research ethics, I would love to state that all those kind and generous professors are ‘honourable’ just like Brutus. They kill talents for the sake of occupying power for no better reasons.

Anger and resentment has a pragmatic sense of armor. I hope students are not enough poor to use them against the system that reduces their value. Mechanics of emotions in educational spaces has led me to work on S.A.T. framework. S.A.T. focuses on space, attention and, time. Space could mean not interfering in student’s/teacher’s personal space and giving them ample opportunities to move back and forth in their lives to work on their mental architectures i.e. theories. Attention could mean that the student/ teacher should get the much needed help from their teachers or students respectively without intruding too much in each other’s personal space. Time could mean investment into building new ideas and shaping them together without morphing them. These three elements are crucial for building a feminist classroom. S.A.T. is a co-constructive framework in the broader framework of feminist pedagogy.

For targeting the oppression that seems subtle we must educate people to seek a room for themselves to explore what they believe in the most. World has often failed to acknowledge creative people’s experiences and new findings due to confined stems of knowledge bearing. Knowledge could be generated using new ways but people often don’t accept them. They are used to older ways of working out theories and new visions just die as they don’t follow the systemic approaches of research. People tend to forget that ideas originate from a system within, that is free to explore its horizons and depths in its own capacity. Mostly, we know half of the answers of the questions we ask. But, we forget to listen to our voice. The soul that guides us to survive, to bring out something new for the humankind has already followed a system that belongs to time, space and attention.