One of the most important questions posed by the current moment of drastic social change is: “What are we going to do about schooling when this is all over?”
Across the world, systems of mass education are creaking as teachers and pupils alike attempt the mammoth task of putting schooling online in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
This has led to innovative, creative and compassionate ways of thinking about what good teaching and learning looks like.
However, schooling from home also raises a raft of issues, not least whether schooling should continue more or less in its traditional form.
Should we still be teaching in year groups, according to a weekly schedule, wedged uncomfortably into Google Classrooms or Microsoft Teams? Should we gather together 30 pupils aged 11 and 12 for year 7 English via Zoom? Should we usher our teenagers ever onwards towards high-stakes exams given the troubled status of these tests as educational rites of passage to adulthood?
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