{"id":7717,"date":"2020-06-17T07:18:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T07:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2020-06-17T07:19:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T07:19:56","slug":"rebooting-schools-or-booting-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/06\/17\/rebooting-schools-or-booting-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebooting schools or booting politicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this email the other day:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Friends, \u00a0As part of our new open conversation on <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fglobaldimension.us5.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D55c07cb9ea0ffbd3387355808%26id%3D9d2c312b63%26e%3D471cfae33b&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cedswahs%40bath.ac.uk%7C5ebd9283fbd7418908d908d80d2ea1df%7C377e3d224ea1422db0ad8fcc89406b9e%7C0%7C0%7C637273841221596405&amp;sdata=BemeRu0Z8kznK%2BZz4XMJ5QBNh3gBylxzeDqIG%2FYYcKM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RebootingEducation<\/a>, we are inviting you to join us for<b>\u00a0<\/b>a virtual conversation with some of the most innovative voices working across education,\u00a0on Thursday 18<sup>th<\/sup> June. \u00a0This discussion will focus on exploring the questions: How can schools reboot the future?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Over the past months we have seen COVID-19 fundamentally challenging and changing how we educate our young people. \u00a0In the discussion\u00a030 leading voices involved in transforming education will share their insights on the unique challenges and opportunities of these times \u2013 and what we have to do next to emerge blinking into a compassionate and sustainable future. \u00a0They\u00a0will discuss how we can use this moment to\u00a0redefine our education system\u00a0in a way that reconciles\u00a0global ecology with personal values.\u00a0 \u00a0Our Conversation Starters will be:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Joysy John, <b>Director of Education<\/b>,<b> Nesta<\/b> | @JoysyJ<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Pavel Luksha, <b>Founder, Global Education Futures<\/b> | @Luksha<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Francois Taddei\u00a0<b>Director,\u00a0Centre for Interdisciplinary Research<\/b>\u00a0Paris | @FrancoisTaddei<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Kim Polman, <b>Founder of Reboot the Future<\/b> | @futurereboot<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where to begin! \u00a0With this perhaps:\u00a0\"<em>Over the past months we have seen COVID-19 fundamentally challenging and changing how we educate our young people<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>Given that most UK schools are shut to most students (some 90% of them), it would be more accurate to say: \"Over the past months we have seen COVID-19 stop us educating our young people\". \u00a0And there is now no sign that this will end before September \u2013 if then.<\/p>\n<p>The damage this is doing to the life chances of some of our most deprived parts of society is enormous, and the DfE seems content to do nothing about it. \u00a0Open the pubs soon \u2013 of course! \u00a0And the shops and zoos. \u00a0But open schools to everyone \u2013 Ah, well, much too tricky, mate. \u00a0The opposition is complicity in this scandal as its education spokesperson went on record to \"welcome\" keeping schools closed. \u00a0What happened to social justice and combatting inequity? \u00a0I know that we're supposed to eschew violence, but the DfE really does need a kick up the backside.<\/p>\n<p>As for \"<em>They\u00a0will discuss how we can use this moment to\u00a0redefine our education system\u00a0in a way that reconciles\u00a0global ecology with personal values<\/em><em>\",<\/em> I've not a clue what this means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this email the other day: Dear Friends, \u00a0As part of our new open conversation on #RebootingEducation, we are inviting you to join us for\u00a0a virtual conversation with some of the most innovative voices working across education,\u00a0on Thursday 18th...<\/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-7717","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\/7717","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=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}