{"id":1238,"date":"2012-01-24T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2012-01-24T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:12:57","slug":"an-opportunity-for-head-teachers-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/01\/24\/an-opportunity-for-head-teachers-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"An opportunity for head teachers everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-16650613\">BBC<\/a> reported on saturday\u00a0that the Occupy movement is looking to extend its activities to\u00a0<em>outreach<\/em>; that is to the wider community including schools. \u00a0The BBC reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The protest group says the point of its occupation is to reclaim \"the space in the face of the financial system and using it to voice ideas for how we can work towards a better future\".<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kelsey Fry, who has been at the camp every day since it started, said it had become a focal point for young people interested in political activism, with teenagers travelling from all over the country to visit. \u00a0Many had joined in its people's assemblies, where issues are discussed openly and everybody taking part is given an equal voice. \u00a0He said:<\/p>\n<p>\"So many of the camps, not just at St Paul's but around the country, will be cleared away in the next few weeks so outreach is a really good way to move things on. \u00a0Young people are a very large part of society and they are voiceless. \u00a0They will be the people who inherit a troubled future. \u00a0We are not trying to indoctrinate them or recruit them, we are trying to use the citizenship curriculum to give young people the tools to take up the issues that are important to them.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many schools may well see this approach as a challenge; whereas actually, it's a test of their liberal education values, and one, I trust, that they will not fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reported on saturday\u00a0that the Occupy movement is looking to extend its activities to\u00a0outreach; that is to the wider community including schools. \u00a0The BBC reports: The protest group says the point of its occupation is to reclaim \"the space...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}