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This article highlights some of the noxious effects of streaming. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-streaming-dismantling-racism-ontario-schools.html Last week, the Ontario government announced its plan to end streaming in Grade 9, something Education Minister Stephen Lecce acknowledged is a “racist discriminatory” practice. Streaming refers to the practice of placing students into educational programs—academic, “applied” and locally developed. These placements usually takeContinue reading “Ending ‘streaming’ is only the first step to dismantling systemic racism in Ontario schools”

Charlotte Nordmann is an essayist, translator and teacher of philosophy. A manifesto for democratic schools: it is time to exit from the impotence and infantilisation brought about by the republican school and the siren’s song of reaction.  There is a need for a system to bring about autonomy and emancipation.  The nature of the “republicanContinue reading “Charlotte Nordmann”

Philippe Meirieu is professor of Education at Lumiere-Lyon University. “Pedagogy is a tool for today’s challenges. Pedagogical inventions help us to resolve everyday problems, like punishing without excluding, living together and not leaving any child by the wayside”.  Pedagogism has become columnists new scapegoat; pedagogy and its history have never been so misunderstood.  However, the contributionsContinue reading “Philippe Meirieu”

Children can be left confused and unable to write accurate sentences because of “uncertain” grammar teaching, experts have warned. But confident teachers can enable students to use their grammar knowledge to help them craft and create their writing and positively support children’s development as writers. Teachers concentrate on making sure primary-aged pupils can remember andContinue reading “Grammar teaching leaves children confused, research shows”

Fernand Oury Fernand Oury (1920-1998) was a teacher in the Paris suburb of La Garenne- Colombes, at the same school where he had been a pupil. He was close to Francoise Dolto, Jacques Lacan, Felix Guettari and his brother Jean Oury, who founded the psychotherapy clinic of La Borde.  Along with George Lapassade, Francois MasperoContinue reading “Fernand Oury”

Privately educated students are more likely to experience bullying, start drinking earlier and take more risks than their state school counterparts, a new study has found. The study, led by the University of York, looked at whether going to private school benefitted young people’s emotional and social development, once family background and prior educational achievement hadContinue reading “Private school education may damage students’ social and emotional development, study suggests”

Deligny was born at Bergues (Nord), he was a specialist primary teacher, then an educator who opposed the teaching methods of the Vichy Government.  From 1947 to 1962 he was Head of “Le Grande Cordèe” which attempted to rehabilitate young offenders.  This was supported by movements for popular education.  In 1968 he founded a centreContinue reading “Fernand Deligny (1913-1996)”

The way a vast amount of schools are setup, with classes grouping children based on their ability, is severely affecting pupil’s self-confidence. This is according to a new substantial study, by experts from the UCL Institute of Education, Queen’s University Belfast and Lancaster University, who looked at more than 9,000 12-to-13-year-old students taking part inContinue reading “Classes set by ability are hitting children’s self-confidence, study finds”

by Matluba Khan – The Conversation This article is worth sharing to show how some imagination and involvement of children and teachers can improve learning. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the education of at least 1.5 billion school students. That’s more than 90% of the world’s children. Although many schools in the west, along with private schoolsContinue reading “I redesigned a school playground for my PhD – and the children got better marks learning outside”