PEDRO MZILENI | Students’ power to share knowledge must be harnessed: When Covid-19 closed classrooms I was worried about the education that students give each other. Official reports tend to emphasise the central role of the teacher in the delivery of…
When Covid-19 closed classrooms I was worried about the education that students give each other. Official reports tend to emphasise the central role of the teacher in the delivery of the syllabus curriculum.
However, this overlooks the hidden potential and power that students have within themselves to educate each other outside classroom hours to better effect. Students are friends. They know each other more intimately than we do as teachers. They share residences, communities, churches, sports clubs, societies and social spaces. In these settings they speak in their own language about their personal experiences with education, social life, fears and aspirations.
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