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Opinion | The School Ritual: Spirituality Goes to School

The distance between science and spirituality is evident; unless one of them prevails over the other or both start a dialogue, that distance will remain ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Spirituality in the Classroom?

In this opinion essay, Andrés García Barrios proposes a return to spirituality in the classroom or at least an open space to discuss it freely ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Types of Teachers

Education without communication exists, and its power is even greater than the practices we are accustomed to today. ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Reconstruction of the ritual

In this complicated world, the school draws on its oldest and most enduring components to serve as a social cohesive. ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Communication – The Invisible (Part 3)

In this third installment of the ‘The School Ritual: Communication,’ Andrés García Barrios recounts how communication is the human mission par excellence that has united ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Communication – The Catastrophe (Part 2)

Through the abuse of "Likes", we have created a society of people together but not united. The school has also followed this trend, turning the ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Communication (part 1)

Language is being revolutionized to become more inclusive, universal, with more elements to identify each person. ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Rule and Discipline

Human beings cannot be completely obedient. We can never be something completely, nor obedient, nor still, nor orderly... nor good, nor bad. Not everything or ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Utopia, Truth, and Spirituality in the Face of the Pandemic

2020 and 2021 are not lost years; they are saved years. Saved by and for schools. But, now more than ever, we are a community ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: From Uncertainty to Truth (or vice-versa?)

In this fourth installment of the series "The educational ritual," Andrés García Barrios invites us to answer the following question: today, at schools, what does ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Mythology

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the school is, rather than a place of learning, a community that, by the very fact of existing, provides ...
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Opinion | The School Ritual: Learning as a Game

In this second installment on the educational ritual, Andrés García Barrios reflects on the idea of learning as leisure that is done for pleasure, not ...
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