Could a British teacher ever do this?
From:
Ella Taylor-Smith
Date:
Apr 15 08:12 UTC
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Hi,
maybe the strength in the UK videos is that they were made by young
people without older people influencing the outcome (which can often
just produce an uneasy compromise).
I'm not sure that it is necessarily a teacher's role to enable this sort
thing though. While I support the idea of citizenship education,
especially through active participation in school governance, young
people also have a life outside school. Making politics a school-thing
may have a negative effect on people's attitudes to politics, especially
if they're not keen on school. (Ok I realise that people having a
negative attitude to politics is practically the default setting!)
Of course, schools have equipment and Internet access, but there are
lots of schemes and organisations outside the school framework which
also provide these.
It's often easiest for councils to contact people through schools, but
this gives schools too strong a mediatory role between young people and
the rest of the world. (Which young people deal with by posting straight
to YouTube)
-Ella
Ella Taylor-Smith
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