The society is at an ‘in-between’ stage where ‘the old is dying and the new cannot yet be born’
Choose your topic: the plan to ban phones in schools, the elimination of free school lunches, the suspension of the “curriculum renewal,” the subject “Virtues and Religions,” structured literacy and the science of knowledge, measures to control school attendance, and most recently, modern learning environments and plans to replace national external assessment.
Can each of these be viewed as a separate battle or as part of a broader “war on learning”?
In my opinion, taken together, these changes are part of a movement to change the education system that has existed in the world since the beginning of the millennium and which was itself a response to the breakdown of consensus on education issues in the 1980s and 1990s. How can we understand these changes and where are we headed?
