Escola da Ponte (English: School of the Bridge) is an
open plan school
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in an
elementary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...
, located in
São Tomé de Negrelos
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,
Portugal, which was started by
José Francisco Pacheco
José Francisco de Almeida Pacheco (born 1951) is a Portuguese educator who pioneered a school called Escola da Ponte (Bridge School), in Vila das Aves, Portugal. He is also a published writer, with some books and a wide range of articles.
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in 1976 and follows the principles of
democratic education. The school is organized and totally run by students, mainly governed by a weekly
deliberative assembly with them and the
professors and the
parents. Students also there are not divided in
classes but in dynamic groups, and they choose what to study having as the main criteria, what they want to learn.
It has embodied
Meaningful Student Involvement
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in classrooms successfully.
Escola da Ponte, Adam Fletcher, May 12, 2015
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References
External links
What have you done today to change the world? A different learning method, by Cláudia Gomes Oliveira, Van Der Love, April 10, 2018
A new education is possible, Written by Maria Occarina Macedo, May 30, 2012
Schools in Portugal
Democratic free schools
Elementary schools in Portugal
1976 establishments in Portugal
Educational institutions established in 1976
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