Teachers’ Views on Returning Schools: ‘A trampoline to future opportunities’
5th March, 4-6pm, Reinvention Centre at Westwood, Warwick Campus [ Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexreyes/ ] Dr Analia Meo from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, came to discuss a short documentary called Teachers' Views on Returning Schools. The Film looks at the experiences and views of teachers and young people at schools in Buenos Aires, which cater for kids who have been excluded from education. In Buenos Aires (2002) a national education policy was created to keep young people in secondary school education. As a result all inclusive schools were set up in 2004. These were experimental. The idea being that they would transfer the knowledge gained back from the school system to shape educational policy. Ten years later their work is not acknowledged. These returning schools are invisible to the wider education system the hoped to influence. During the film one phrase from a teacher struck me, she said, that their school was ‘...