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A strategy for the turnaround, or what a school should be. Essay by Joanna Górecka, Ph.D.
Why schools need to be transformed, what that transformation should look like, and what impact a Holistic Think Tank would…
07 July 2023
Prof. Magdalena Ślusarczyk: “Nowadays it is not easy to talk about universal values, because we live in a world of their pluralism”
Professor, we are really grateful for this opportunity to talk to you. For us, Holistic Think Tank, it is really…
21 September 2022
Educational journey into the unknown begins with leaving the familiar port
We sometimes hear the expression of a rather melancholic notion that we were, in fact, born too late to have…
21 September 2022
School should stress the mutual permeability between various fields of study, along with the permeability of values
Children starting off on their educational journey ought to be provided with opportunities to develop in many different directions. Emphasis,…
21 September 2022
Interdisciplinary School Subject (IDS): The point is to do inquiry based learning
Holistic Think Tank recently awarded a research grant to Fab Lab Foundation for creating a new interdisciplinary subject. Today we…
21 September 2022
Approaching the global issues based on interdisciplinary knowledge, values, and skills
Education for global citizenship, in its critical rather than “soft” version, invites students to question existing social order and to…
21 September 2022
What kind of citizenship should be taught at school?
Functioning in a relationship with the state should be an important part of the life of each and every one…
21 September 2022
The role of the school is to teach how to learn
“What is the purpose of the school?” – this question seems to have an obvious answer. The objective of the…
21 September 2022
“Mathematics is something more than a subject based on the data”
Travelling through different places allow for observing rich fauna and flora, describing the landscape and recording the most beautiful views.…
21 September 2022
Holistic Think Tank Methodological Manifesto
1. A methodology to match the approach to the world and to education At Holistic Think Tank we are primarily…
21 September 2022
Communication triad – is a mature educational dialogue possible?
Communication is a basic tool of knowledge transfer in a school situation. The child and the adult communicate with each…
20 September 2022
Computational thinking as a fundamental skill used by everyone by the middle of the 21st Century
We all agree that the school should not only impart knowledge, but also help develop specific skills. The catalog of…
20 September 2022
“Empty Pedagogy, Behaviorism, and the Rejection of Equity” – Chris McNutts diagnosis on the educational reality.
The use of techniques based on the achievements of behaviorism stirs rampant emotions among education specialists. It is worth remembering,…
20 September 2022
The question returns like a boomerang: How to make pupils want to learn?
The Holistic Think Tank team has been working for many months on an international research project on primary school education.…
20 September 2022
Maciej Winiarek: “We need to flip the classroom relationship and put the student in the center of the education system”
“I think we should increase the potential of children now, which will enable them to take responsibility for their own…
20 September 2022
Does homeschooling teach what schools do not?
Statistics indicate a growing interest in homeschooling among many members of the public. In Italy, over the past two years,…
20 September 2022
Neither education nor production systems are tailored to develop 21st century competences
Today we face the reality of modern society: neither education nor production systems are tailored to develop 21st century competences.…
20 September 2022
Holistic approach in education
A list compiled by the Holistc Thnik Tank researchers – Jan Bazyli Klakla and Katarzyna PajÄ…k-ZaÅ‚Ä™ska – based on preliminary analyses and…
20 September 2022