by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | About |
We are Jelmer Evers and René Kneyber. In 2013 we set out, as teachers, to change the Dutch educational system. Attempting to get rid of the neoliberalism plagueing the system and to craft an alternative placing teachers’ pedagogical autonomy centre to the...
by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | About |
To help us in our mission we attracted the help of fellow teachers and renowned educational experts such as Hargreaves, Shirley, Fullan and Biesta, who participated in the book ‘Het Alternatief’. It was released on October 4th, 2013
by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | About |
Centre in our philosophy is that an education system should be supported by the system, instead of teachers supporting the system by means of ‘voluntary slavery’. We call that flip the system.
by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | About |
Within a month the book became talk of the town in the Dutch parliament. The Dutch minister of education Jet Bussemaker even discussed the book, noting that she would take up the challenge of ‘flipping the system’. )...
by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | About |
In 2015 we, with the help of Education International, will be releasing a global version of ‘the alternative’ in our attempt to counter GERM across the globe. Stay tuned for more details. Either on twitter (@flipsystem) (@rkneyber_EN) (@jelmerevers) or through our...
