Post by puja on Oct 22, 2023 1:51:25 GMT -6
For some time now, the teacher-centered education model has not met the needs of some 21st century students, as various academic research shows. Furthermore, the need for democratic schools, which increasingly welcome all students, has become a priority. The pandemic, the adoption of hybrid learning by a large number of educational institutions due to the need for care and social distancing measures, in addition to the consideration of alternative learning spaces, reinforced the discussion around new educational models, which focus on relationships between students themselves, and theirs with the rest of the school community. This discussion is much older.
Alphonse Ferrière, French educator and philosopher, created the New School movement in the 19th century, defending the idea that schools should allow children or young people to be the owners of their moral conscience. This new philosophy caused ws data great surprise and, at the same time, a lot of interest in Europe at the time. Here in Brazil, the Manifesto of the Pioneers of New Education echoed the European movement, through the defense of a public school, secular and accessible to all. Anísio Teixeira , considered the patron of democratic education in our country, was one of the great enthusiasts of the Escola Nova in Brazil. There is still a long way to go before innovative proposals become the majority in the educational universe, for political, financial, ideological or structural reasons.
But to inspire teachers to reflect on models that already exist around the world, today we bring six schools focused on student learning autonomy, which adopt alternative and promising methodologies, learning spaces and forms of management, even though some of them have more than 60 years of foundation. Remember (or get to know) these institutions below. 1 – Summerhill School (United Kingdom) Founded by Scottish writer educator Alexander Sutherland Neill (better known as AS Neill), the school has been in existence for 97 years. Since 1927, the institution has been in Suffolk, a coastal city 200 kilometers from London. The school occupies a large property full of nature around it, students, teachers and staff coexist, seeking a balance between responsibility and freedom.