#wfe4 Just wrote my article for the course on the future of education, this time it is about schools rather than teachers.
The course was very good at exploring the nature of schools, looking at the concept of pedagogy and the issues of informal learning concepts and youth clubs as out of school learning spaces. This is particularly relevant to me as I was at the conference, Creative Collisions, funded by the Welcome Institute and organised by 9 national informal education groups including the scouts and guides, and the National Citizenship Sevice. I went as an adult responsible for a young person delegate from an NGO. But I was interested that the idea of rights was mentioned once, and that children's rights not at all. And the speaker from the NCS stated that active citizenship was only relevant and appropriate for the informal sector. So much for addressing issues of mental health, decision-making, critical thinking, leadership and co-operation, becoming active citizens, creative self-expression... in our schools.
We have compartmentalised our society such that schools will never address the issues that teachers, professors, polticians, doctors in 1914 onwards wanted them to... that is the development of human beings who have dignity and the culture of rights that empowers them to be active members of the communities around them.
This time rather than writing reflections I have pasted what I think is a sharable link from the course to my work (I am not sure if it will work so apologies):
https://www.coursera.org/learn/future-education/peer/9Pj2T/journal-entry-for-week-4/review/npCopUluEeeXjRLJpOhACA
The course was very good at exploring the nature of schools, looking at the concept of pedagogy and the issues of informal learning concepts and youth clubs as out of school learning spaces. This is particularly relevant to me as I was at the conference, Creative Collisions, funded by the Welcome Institute and organised by 9 national informal education groups including the scouts and guides, and the National Citizenship Sevice. I went as an adult responsible for a young person delegate from an NGO. But I was interested that the idea of rights was mentioned once, and that children's rights not at all. And the speaker from the NCS stated that active citizenship was only relevant and appropriate for the informal sector. So much for addressing issues of mental health, decision-making, critical thinking, leadership and co-operation, becoming active citizens, creative self-expression... in our schools.
We have compartmentalised our society such that schools will never address the issues that teachers, professors, polticians, doctors in 1914 onwards wanted them to... that is the development of human beings who have dignity and the culture of rights that empowers them to be active members of the communities around them.
This time rather than writing reflections I have pasted what I think is a sharable link from the course to my work (I am not sure if it will work so apologies):
https://www.coursera.org/learn/future-education/peer/9Pj2T/journal-entry-for-week-4/review/npCopUluEeeXjRLJpOhACA
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