The Flipped Classroom

Today's lecture is a pedagogical method called 'The Flipped Classroom'. Jacques Rancière introduced this method that brought up social revolution in the fight for equality in the education system, which had a huge impact in the Western world. The promotion of this method alongside with the increasingly popular ideologies, such as freedom, equality and sexuality, has indeed helped the repressed young people at that time to come to a realisation that they can break free from the fear of failure and contempt, so that, in the present, students here have equal opportunity to take charge of their own learning, and ultimately life. I feel privileged to experience the significant improvement in the current education system from the use of propaganda against the existing system back in the Modern Era, although I still think that the old-fashioned hierarchical education system can be more useful in primary and secondary education as a guidance for students to measure their ability and decide the subject each of them want to pursue in the future.



No education system could achieve absolute fairness for social barrier and division is unavoidable in real life since discrimination is a part of human nature. In a tertiary art educational institution, the majority of students had come to terms with this 'division' and more or less acknowledge that they are good at different things and have different interests at this stage. They have chosen the subject they want to focus on learning, so there is a higher chance that The Flipped Classroom method to be highly effective. As an animation student, it is essential to be able to think outside the box and communicate my thoughts clearly to other people because animators usually work in teams. So, The Flipped Classroom model has benefited me in terms of having freedom to get creative and receiving guidance from the tutors who pinpoint new things that I can look out for that could be food for thought for both internal and external intellectual dialogue.