The Learn Together: Approach To Education

The Learn Together approach to education fosters the whole child perceptive and succeeds in generating actively engaged citizens in our pluralist society. The common values we share in society which it promotes are integrity, equality, inclusion, diversity and responsibility. Across the four strands of the curriculum, ethos, philosophy of the school and most importantly the lived ethos of Educate Together schools these common values can be seen.
The Educate Together curriculum is pluralist in nature and recognises the influential role teachers and valuing the child as a confident and caring individual. The curriculum celebrates difference and provide the knowledge, skills and attitudes that children need to enable them to make informed moral
‘Emotions do not merely accompany our deepest desires and satisfactions they constitute them, permeating out ideas, identities and interests. They are, in (Randall) Collins’ words (1990, 28) the ‘glue’ of solidarity – and what mobilises conflict’ (Jasper 1998, 399). Students as they transition through the school begin to realise that emotions underpin reasoning and all ideas and without emotion there would be a lack of motivation or ‘glue’ that is behind our
Education together class groupings are also inclusive and students are not separated into special programmes, groups of ethnic minorities, second language learners and or students with disabilities. This leads to a more inclusive environment. This initiative should be a shared one between all schools. Students do not choose the circumstance of their birth and should not be judged according to it when entering into the school