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We have a controversial one for you today, especially if you work in education, because today we’re talking about the ways in which prisons and schools are similar and how in at least one way, prisons are better. Buckle in friends, we’re in for an emotional ride!

👉  Nicki Shares

  • Her experience of enlightenment when her students helped her see the similarities in the prison and school system
  • Examples of how the two compare
  • Peter Gray’s take on this topic
  • How schools “enclose”
  • The origins of school and how it failed to embrace different approaches
  • `How schools harm culture
  • Times are changing, school are not
  • Management and control practices in schools and questions if this is the best model 
  • Why learning at home was so hard and what it revealed about the school system
  • Myths about learning
  • The difference between school and education
  • Startling stats about time outdoors in schools compared to prisons
  • How the shift will happen

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