Group 10

Style and Affect

To someone reading this in the present, the hope is that our approach to education and the ideas listed would feel revolutionary and would hopefully beg the question: “why aren’t these already implemented into schools?”. Especially seeing as we live in a highly digital age, the ideas revolving around holistic and outdoor education would be highly beneficial to students who spend countless hours on social media, watching TV, etc. Our hope is to give readers the impression that this type of schooling goes beyond the academics, and reaches the souls of students to help them connect with nature and lift their spirits through being grounded through nature. While schools currently do not place much attention on the health and well-being of students, and often, to students, they feel like many classes they are forced to take in high school are not particularly useful or applicable to them. Therefore, our life-skills workshops would hopefully bring a sense of renewed excitement for education to students and parents. This would hopefully provide motivation for high school students to go to school, it would greatly impact their mental health, hopefully reduce the use of drugs and alcohol and would help students find a new love for learning, for the outdoors and help them find their path in life.

Inuksuk Highschool, Iqaluit

To convey our ideas through our wording and in order to effectively communicate our ideas to the full effect of their potential benefits, we will be sure to emphasize the growth that would come of it. We would be sure to communicate the benefits of this approach on students’ health and physical & mental wellness, and their growth as, not only students but as productive members of society, learning skills that would equip them for the rest of their lives. The wording we would use would be similar to the previous paragraph- highlighting the benefits and the positive impact it will have on students.

As readers read the ideas we have come up with, we hope they will bring a sense of excitement and hope for the future of education. Ideally, this futuristic world would get a renewed sense of enthusiasm for education for all parties involved; students, parents and educators. Parents could see the benefits of this approach and see how it would greatly impact their children, and in turn, it would greatly impact their families. We hope that these ideas can bring hope to families, enthusiasm for high school students, and even a renewed passion for teachers as they take on this new approach to education that would bring more meaning to their careers, more joy to their day and have positive effects on their wellbeing too. Readers are hopefully encouraged to enter the education field, or students are encouraged and looking forward to their education after hearing this, knowing that this could be implemented in their school, and parents can be hopeful of their kids’ futures.