politics, school, anarchism(?), US-centric
read https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1532875.html today (cw: US school funding politics, emotional abuse, bigotry)
it's making me wonder how a non-hierarchical educational system might work - one where there isn't a teacher in a position of power and students forced into compliance
politics, school, anarchism(?), US-centric
I got put through a lot of experiments with 'free-form' learning as a child, and my lasting impression was that naive inexperienced teachers trying to jam that style onto us without addressing deeper issues made it a complete failure. On reflection, I needed motivation, confidence in myself, confidence in my teachers, and above all an environment/culture that hadn't twisted learning into this undesirable chore.
re: politics, school, anarchism(?), US-centric
@Thyme *nods*
Inexperienced teachers being pushed to do a thing without training tends to have pretty damn poor results. :(
That's part of the issue with trying to reinvent education, I think: you have to figure out how to train the teachers/mentors/whatever.