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Evolving Schools in a Post-pandemic Context
Eirdosh, D., & Hanisch, S. (2021). Evolving Schools in a Post-pandemic Context. In COVID-19: Paving the Way for a More Sustainable World (pp. 465-480). Springer, Cham.
Abstract
- The Covid-19 pandemic has required schools and students to radically and immediately adapt teaching and learning processes to more distributed, digital, and home-based learning strategies for an indefinite period of time. This situation provides an unprecedented opportunity for students and teachers around the world to reflect on the purpose and design of schools post COVID-19, particularly on the kinds of school design elements that may best meet the needs of all students and teachers in the future. Before the pandemic emerged, the Community Science Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology had been developing a student-led effort, the Evolving Schools project, for exploring the everyday cooperation dynamics of teaching and learning within their own school communities. This chapter offers an illustrative case study of this project as a novel approach to student participation in school improvement efforts. By involving a small group of students and teachers in reflecting on their experience of changing schooling practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as in exploring scientific perspectives on human learning and cooperation, a new theoretical foundation for the practical empowerment of students and teachers is framed within the aims of Education for Sustainable Development.
- Publication Type OpenEvo Publication
