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Illustration by Ros Asquith. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/education/cartoon/2009/jan/27/lines-cartoon Having reading about Pierre Bourdieu’s theories on class inequality and the perpetuation of social class through the educational system, it’s challenging not to reflect on my own life. As per Bourdieu words, I was born with no social or economical capital. Neither my maternal grandparents nor my parental…

Picture retrieved from National Museum of American History For many years, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner researched and wrote about behaviour and learning. Skinner was convinced that humans do not function with free will; he believed that the learning process was based on changes in human behavior that were the result of external events. After…

From: ©2016 Jeft Stahler/Dist. by Universal UClick for UFS One of the major claims that EdTech companies use to promote personalised education is that, by analysing students’ data, they can create a tailored learning path that can enhance students’ educational outcomes, maximising the efficiency of the educational system and reducing teachers’ workload. However, personalised learning…

Image from @baloocartoons.com Tencent Holdings is one of the largest and most influential internet companies in China. According to the PitchBook website, this year alone the company has generated more than $80 billion in revenue, providing services that range from social networks, music, e-commerce, online games, payments systems, broadcasting and search engines. Tencent Holdings also…

Furlong SchoolBase is a school data management system created by Howard Langley Furlong. His main goal at the time was to help schools’ admission process. In 2009, the company purchased Academic Business Solutions and Sage200, a fee billing software. In 2017, it was acquired by Volaris, a Canadian software company, which allowed Furlong to connect…

We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher, leave them kids alone Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone! Paulo Freire could not have agreed with the sentiment of this song, as he also saw traditional education as a system that oppressed children. Ten years before…

OtherWords.org. Only a handful of countries among the United Nations members do not have compulsory education. Since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, education has been imperative. “Even before the two World Wars, education was seen in the Western world as a solution to numerous social, political, and economic problems” (Besche-Truthe). It is…

According to Melissa Benn, in her book ‘Inadequate’ Priya Lakhani is rightly criticizing various shortcomings of the British educational system. Benn highlights the validity of Lakhani’s points, especially when considering that, before the pandemic, every year a third of UK students failed to achieve a grade 4, which is the minimum passing grade for English…

In this blog, I will be discussing Chile and its educational system, considering my own experiences as a student during the late 70s and 80s and reflecting on the radical changes that education in Chile has undergone over the past 50 years. Primary education became compulsory in Chile in 1920. Like the 1870 Education Act…

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