Pandemic is an opportunity to reimagine schools as places for community learning
Northlines Arvind Gupta The critique of school as an institution has developed and grown in the past half a century. Education theorist Everett Reimer wrote School is Dead in the 1960s. Danger School, a classic published by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire’s group in the late 1970s, captured through scathing cartoons the harm which schools inflict on our children. Most schools are caged jails, where an alien curriculum designed by some “experts” is thrust down a child’s gullet. Today, many schools are gargantuan corporate enterprises with thousands of children on their roll...
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