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We believe that one of the primary purposes of education is to help learners achieve satisfaction in life. Part of this involves making a space in which they can determine what satisfaction and success are for them. To this end, education cannot be based on extrinsic motivation, but must give learners the opportunity to explore skills and ideas that are relevant and meaningful to them. This kind of education does not mould learners, but gives them the resources and tools to build themselves.
MindBurst Workshop facilitated an Inclusive Education workshop at Kingsmead College, Rosebank, Johannesburg, in May 2019. The school has embraced a commitment to including every child in the learning experience. This expresses itself in a determination to explore unconscious biases and growing edges with regards to transforming teaching practice and…
Continue readingMindBurst has worked with the refugee children of Three2Six to produce two stop frame animations, Precieuse – a refugee’s story in 2011, and a precious life in a scary world (2017). Working on projects like this with children between the ages of 6 and 11 is a revelation. We do…
Continue readingYou are only free to act according to your own will if you know what you want. You can’t really say, “I know what I want”, if you are just conforming to some ideal or default pattern you have never questioned. If you do not know what you want you…
Continue readingFor teachers who want to make a commitment to including every child in their classroom, here is an in-depth look at the pedagogy of Inclusive Education and how you can apply it in your teaching. Inclusive Education tries to address the imbalances and exclusions of the past, ensuring that all…
Continue reading“Be a nuisance where it counts.” Those are the words of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, an American journalist, women’s rights activist and environmentalist. Having freedom of speech is not just an opportunity for self-expression. It is what makes it possible for us to participate in the decisions that will shape our…
Continue readingRote memory is a skill in which computers far outperform any human. In the 21st century we cannot treat our learners as passive receptacles of knowledge, but we must treat them as independent knowledge producers, willing to try, fail and learn.
Continue readingHere are all the posters produced in collaboration with Grade 10s at Sacred Heart and Paper Snap. Click on an image to download. Please feel free to print them and experiment with them! Read the corresponding blog post here
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