Speak to any forward-thinking educator about how we should be teaching our children and a few recurring themes emerge. We all envision a world where students have the opportunity to construct their own meaning by asking questions, testing theories, deriving insights, and experiencing failure. We all want our students out in the real world, engaging with local communities and working on problems that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nWe want an education that is deeply personalised, where skills and competencies are prioritised over facts \u2013 an education that celebrates our shared humanity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
But, these ideas are not new. They echo the philosophies of early thinkers, like Piaget\u2019s constructivism, Vygostky\u2019s social-cultural theory and Dewey\u2019s and Freire\u2019s ideas of critical pedagogy and schools as institutions of social reform. If we have had such widespread consensus on what teaching & learning should look like, why has progress seemed so elusive? Why do most classrooms around the world still mirror those of the last century?<\/p>\n\n\n\n