Education: Development news, research, data

As cultures began to extend their knowledge beyond skills that could be readily learned through imitation, formal education developed. After the public school system was widely developed beginning in the 19th century, alternative education developed in part as a reaction to perceived limitations and failings of traditional education. A broad range of educational approaches emerged, including alternative schools, self learning, homeschooling, and unschooling. Example alternative schools include Montessori schools, Waldorf schools , Friends schools, Sands School, Summerhill School, Walden’s Path, The Peepal Grove School, Sudbury Valley School, Krishnamurti schools, and open classroom schools.

• The increasing shortage of teachers in secondary education, in Flanders as well as worldwide, is partly due to an insufficient inflow of new teachers.
• Make time to learn more about the digital world we live in, and how to have safe and enjoyable online experiences.
• These include parents, local communities, religious leaders, NGOs, stakeholders involved in health, child protection, justice and law enforcement , media and political leadership.

Similarly, the social lives of students have also been upended and this has been detrimental to the health of students worldwide which has also negatively impacted educational quality. COVID-19 has shone a light on …