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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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Opinion | The Educational Ritual During the Pandemic

Today, the various educational models have moved to the background to give pass and prominence to the only value that has always been present, although ...

Opinion: A Notebook to Deal with Uncertainty and Change

Writing, a simple but profound practice, is a powerful tool that becomes indispensable in these uncertain times.

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