Mystification Essay, Research Paper

Mystification

According to McNeil, mystification is a technique used by teachers who are

not fully informed on the topic in which they are instructed to teach. Teachers

often use mystification when teaching a complex, or controversial topic. They

mystify the topic by making it appear very important, but unknowable, thus

leaving the student with a sense of wonder, or mystery. Mystification does

count as a form of knowledge control because mystification makes it impossible

for a student to gain a full understanding of a topic from inside the classroom.

Mystification could be a way for students to get out of the classroom. This

would allow them to get out on their own to learn more about topics they are

learning about in school.

Gene Anyon would enjoy the idea of mystification. Mystification would

encourage students to work outside of the “boring” classroom and learn more

extensively about a subject on their own. Mystification could be used to spark

students interest in a subject, and leave them with enough mystery for them to

seek an answer, or conclusion that otherwise would not have been covered in the

classroom. Mystification would be an easy way to ease the corruptness of the

school on the student.

Getting out of the classroom would also teach the student not to rely on

the school as there only main source of education and would also teach them to

think on a higher level, thinking and questioning more independently. Would

this not broaden a the education of a child? It is often known that what

children do not know, or what they find mysterious, they often seek to find.