Our Learning Model states that Learning is critical – it provides young people with the power and the tools to understand and challenge inequity and injustice and to make change in their lives.
The basic concerns of critical, social justice learning include:
- all education is inherently political and all teaching must be aware of this condition
- a social and educational vision of justice and equality should ground all education
- the alleviation of oppression and human suffering is a key dimension of educational purpose
- schools must not hurt students - good schools don't blame students for their failures or strip students of the knowledges they bring to the classroom
- education must both promote emancipatory change and academic learning - these goals should never be in conflict, they should work together.
- the politics of knowledge and other ways of knowing are central to understanding the way power operates in educational institutions to perpetuate the status quo.
These beliefs are inspired by the determination of our community to develop and education that fits their children. They are integrated into the learning programme on our campus and promote students’ critical thinking and understanding of the world around them.
