Jag hittar en intressant artikel i Huffington post med rubriken “Is silence really golden?“. John Merrow försöker skaka liv i bilden av skolan som en plats för samtal.

It’s often said that teachers “teach the way they were taught, not the way they were told to teach.” What if young people grow up to practice citizenship the way they are treated in schools, which are both hierarchical and authoritarian? Schools deliver an overtly knowledge-based curriculum, but the “hidden curriculum” prizes control and order over inquiry and learning. Stated simply, schools and teachers do not typically like to pose questions they don’t already know the answers to — and what kind of preparation is that for effective citizenship in a democracy?

På Malmö högskola ska vi snart få en ny rektor (eller gammal). Jag har inte full koll på den demokratiska processen. Vem utser? Vad är regeringens roll? Hur ser personalens inflytande ut?

Jag får läsa på!