The School I'd Like: Revisited
Children and young people's reflections on an education for the future
Editorial Review
In 2001, The Guardian newspaper launched a competition called “The School I’d Like”. The initiative posed what seemed like a natural and appropriate question at the turn of the new century inviting children of school age to tell how they might change education and their experience of schooling for the better. From all of the ideas received, The Guardian with the help of ten children compiled a “Children’s Manifesto” to capture the essential ingredients of the perfect school in the hope that existing schools would listen to the voices of children and put their ideas into practice.
Book Reviews
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Wisdom to Share
Social historians of the industrialized world have documented the powerful effect of the compulsory schooling on the institutionalization of childhood.
School became a designated site of childhood, a space organized and controlled by adults to aid an ordered transition from childhood to adulthood.
Differences make the world go round. At the moment schools do the opposite, trying to make everybody normal.
If a student is being bullied or is worried about something they’d have a counselor on hand all the time, who would have experienced what the child was going through.
Children demanded that the timetables give “more time for the subject of your choice.” This means that students can work better in lessons because they want to learn the subject.
Children resent the idea of “one size fits all”. Norms of performance are condemned as damaging to self-esteem and, thereby, individual identity.
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