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kids are worth it! Revised Edition: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline
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Teachers should be guides of the learning journey, not authoritative instructors ready to dish out abuse or punishment when the child expresses non-conforming behaviors.
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
They also taught me that often kids who act out are angry and hurting, so it was important to feel compassion for them too. They told me to tell bullies the truth and remind them that they could, and should, be better—that they were responsible for their choices. And they told me to seek the help of an authority figure rather than angrily mete out
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In his revolutionary work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, published in 1970, Paulo Freire describes what is still the dominant model of teaching today. In this model, students are viewed as empty “bank accounts” to be filled with knowledge by teachers — not as participants who have a say in what and how they learn. This model is not designed to enable s
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