In my own schooling experience I definitely experienced the Tyler rationale. I experienced this mostly only in classes like math or science where we did not focus on education about social values, norms or any type of behaviour or opinion. Some things were just all about memorization or formulas which leave little room for politics or morals. This can have both positive and negative effects on students and teachers. This approach allows students and teachers to focus on one thing, what is directed to the teachers to teach.
The tyler rationale allows students to focus on only school subjects and ignore the social and political influences that they bring. This can be a positive thing because it provides students with the opportunity to focus and potentially achieve very high grades in school. For some students who may be socially awkward this would also be a positive thing because they could focus on the pure scholarly aspect of school, which for some would be a relief. Another upside to this approach is that it allows teachers to focus on specific subjects lets them not worry about teaching things that aren’t directly in the curriculum or syllabus. Even with these positives of the Tyler rationale it can do a lot of harm to children and youth.
If schools focused completely on the Tyler rationale then they would start to miss out on one of the most important aspects of school. This aspect is the social aspect. School provides students with the opportunity to be exposed to all sorts of different social aspects. These vary from social norms, values, politics and more. Teachers do influence all of these things whether they try to or not and in some cases some of it is even in the curriculum. One example of these types of social educations would be how teachers teach students to be creative or how kids are taught to share. If kids weren’t taught things like don’t hit or share then people would develop into very different adults and society would be very different. So while there are upsides and downsides to the Tyler rationale it could not be the complete package of education. The Tyler rationale has to be used in mild doses otherwise the social downfalls would be far greater than the few upsides.
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