Can schools built on a mid-twentieth century industrial model of education promote critical thinking in the 21st century? Can twenty to forty students sitting in a classroom develop the insights needed to meet and challenge not only their own points of view, but also those of others? Can social media facilitate the changes we need [...]

Mary Anne We have a Faculty of Culture and Community whose mandate is to try and understand the many different ways in which educational institutions could become more permeable. I do think we need to evaluate the ways in which different subject areas are developed and taught to incorporate and model the radically different ways [...]

Anna
I really like the model of Peer 2 Peer University. Do you feel that the interchanges were substantial and that you learned new things?

I am interested in the third question. What are some breakthrough practices being implemented today? If social media are to be effective then we have to know how to curate comments, twitters, blog entries and exchanges on Facebook. The curatorial approach means learning how to critically engage with reducing the quantity of information into a [...]

I recently had the privilege of talking to a group of parents about the culture of schools and the education that their children were receiving during what is clearly a transitional phase in the history of education. Many of the parents were very worried about their children and with some justification. This was a boy’s [...]