When we were given the chance to choose the subject we want to study first, most of us chose “How to manage stress”. We want to have more time, more mindful and meaningful moments, for all of us.
Traditionally, the educational system has been designed to accommodate the most people possible and it has been a strong engine driving social inclusion. But as an engine, it has its own pace. Those who don't meet the expectations are left out; people like us are struggling. We are not underachievers; life just happens. The side effects are evident: dropping out, bullying, violence, depression, stressful jobs. There is a feeling that something is missing.
We look at the Ontario Ministry of Education’s strategy 'Excellence for All' with a hope that now is our time. We recognize the challenge of inclusion in this strategy; we believe knowledge is collaboratively created; so we want to share our vision.
We hope our narratives will allow the reader to imagine what it is to be a person trying to fit in the system, that life is more the school so learning and teaching are for life. We hope our narratives will bring Benjamin Disraeli words to mind:
(Some of us in front of our school/2006)
Traditionally, the educational system has been designed to accommodate the most people possible and it has been a strong engine driving social inclusion. But as an engine, it has its own pace. Those who don't meet the expectations are left out; people like us are struggling. We are not underachievers; life just happens. The side effects are evident: dropping out, bullying, violence, depression, stressful jobs. There is a feeling that something is missing.
We look at the Ontario Ministry of Education’s strategy 'Excellence for All' with a hope that now is our time. We recognize the challenge of inclusion in this strategy; we believe knowledge is collaboratively created; so we want to share our vision.
We hope our narratives will allow the reader to imagine what it is to be a person trying to fit in the system, that life is more the school so learning and teaching are for life. We hope our narratives will bring Benjamin Disraeli words to mind:
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own”
We hope our narratives will bring to mind our words:
Care School because Care is Cool!
(Some of us in front of our school/2006)
To find out why we begin this research, please click: Ines H. and Dianna P.
A deeper view is available in the paper “Investigation initiators, the academics” – yeah: What our experience suggested about how the hermeneutic phenomenology helped with listening to the outsiders’ experience
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