Escola da Ponte
Escola da Ponte (English: School of the Bridge) is an open plan school[1] in an elementary school, located in São Tomé de Negrelos, Portugal, which was started by José Francisco Pacheco in 1976 and follows the principles of democratic education. The school is organized and totally run by students, mainly governed by a weekly deliberative assembly[2] with them and the professors and the parents. Students also there are not divided in classes but in dynamic groups, and they choose what to study having as the main criteria, what they want to learn.[3]
It has embodied Meaningful Student Involvement in classrooms successfully.[4]
References
- ^ Open Plan Schools in Portugal: Failure or Innovation?, by Miguel Martinho and José Freire da Silva, PEB Exchange 2008/12, OECD 2008
- ^ Escola da Ponte, Adam Fletcher, May 12, 2015
- ^ "A new education is possible, Written by Maria Occarina Macedo, May 30, 2012". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
- ^ Escola da Ponte, Adam Fletcher, May 12, 2015
External links
- What have you done today to change the world? A different learning method, by Cláudia Gomes Oliveira, Van Der Love, April 10, 2018 Archived May 17, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- A new education is possible, Written by Maria Occarina Macedo, May 30, 2012 Archived April 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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