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WHAT IS FREEDOM?
True freedom is the ability to act, speak, and make all decisions without constraint or restriction by an outside power. As we think about this in the context of children, we will be examining how school systems, a standard part of modern-day childhood, restricts or limits the freedom that children have.
How much freedom do children experience in public schooling systems?
Why we care?
This is important because different school systems affect how children learn as well as can change how successful they can be in the future. This is important to us because our schooling is what taught us our personal freedoms as well it is what will aid in shaping our children and our country in the future. Education is also a key to freedom. Through our class, Freedom and Movement in the Transatlantic World, we have learned that with a higher education, people are more aware of their freedoms and this leads to more of their personal freedoms being respected.
We hope this can serve as a resource to those interested in learning about freedom of children in our school system and how schools affect children's freedom.
Image: Langata West School – Nairobi by Global Partnership for Education in Kenya on FLICKR, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
THE AUTHORS:
JULIA FRYREAR, SHANNON LEWAND, SARAH EARHART & ANDREW ELDRIDGE