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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 ...

Corporal Punishment is Still Practiced in Schools Around the World

In the United States, corporal punishment continues to be legal in nineteen states. In Latin America and the Caribbean, one in two children suffers ...

Why isn’t hyper surveillance a solution for schools?

From mandatory clear backpacks to police in educational institutions - these are the norms in many schools today.

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Opinion: Three arguments to defend dress codes and why these do not apply

Uniforms and dress codes create a sense of order and cohesion. But they might also disrupt the educational experience of gender and racial ...

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