As an organization, CNVO the Netherlands does not prescribe what school employees must do in terms of
educational content. So a comprehensive response to the questions is difficult
to give from the point of view of our organization. In a general sense some
remarks:
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The
freedom of education is a great good. This provides a variety of offerings that
makes students, parents and employees feel at home. For the CNV it is important
that employees have a pleasant working environment in which they recognize
themselves in the norms and values, educational philosophy and approach.
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To
continue to guarantee a good working environment, an open and safe culture is
required. This creates space for good and vulnerable discussions about
dilemmas, new situations, events, a view on inclusive sexuality. Within a
school team it is important that there is room for these conversations (offer
support, tips, listening ear, broad shoulder to cry on, time for reflections,
do we do the right things?, Do we do them right ?, etc.) .
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In
education we see more and more attention for critical thinking, in a world
where much information is spread through all kinds of media. What is good and
what is bad? What does one person think? What does the other think? A class is
often seen as a small community with room for honesty, safety and trust to have
a dialogue and to express an opinion without (condemning) classmates. The
teacher must ensure that attention is paid to exchanging arguments, listening
to each other, where students are confronted with different opinions and
thoughts. But also the downside to this: condemnation of thoughts, hardening of
language, bullying, exclusion, violence, abuse of power and loneliness. In a
class, the challenge is to discuss this with each other, to experience and live
it. This creates space to form your opinion, exchange arguments and
respectfully live with someone else's opinion together in class.
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