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E - Teachers or Parents: - Who is responsible for raising the next generation?

25 Sep 2024

In addition, a new theme, ‘Identities and Diversity: living together in the UK’ involved ‘appreciating that identities are complex’, ‘considering the 9 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RAISING THE NEXT GENERATION? connections between the UK, Europe and the rest of the world’ and ‘exploring the diverse national, regional, ethnic and religious cultures, groups and communities in the UK and the connections bet. [...] Meanwhile, the UK’s biggest teaching union published a report urging the decolonisation of ‘every subject and every stage of the school curriculum.’ It argues that every aspect of school life from the design of school classrooms to the structure of their daily routines have colonial roots.27 Subjects such as history and geography are used by schools and teachers to promote a distinct set of values. [...] Teachers as substitute parents Alongside instructing pupils in beliefs and values that may run counter to the views of their parents, teachers encroach upon what was once assumed to be the responsibility of the family in relation to the health and wellbeing of their children. [...] The impact of such decisions, played out over the course of many decades, has been to weaken the institution of the family and undermine the authority of parents. [...] Dewey writes that, ‘The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment.’107 Similarly, the philosopher Hannah Arendt described schools as ‘the institution that we interpose between the private domain of home and the world in order to make the transition to the world possible’; meaning that, to a child,.
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