Returning to the Schoolhouse

What is it about?

We think about contemporary education by returning to a nearly obsolete word: “schoolhouse.” In doing so, we consider how persons are housed in the schoolhouse, what it means to think of school in terms of home/dwelling, and what we can do to prepare ourselves to enter the schoolhouse so that something important might take place there. Subsequently, we think about how we take new understandings from the schoolhouse to the various neighborhoods we inhabit.

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Photo by Timothy Chan on Unsplash

Photo by Timothy Chan on Unsplash

Why is it important?

It reminds us that the schooling that takes place in the schoolhouse needs to be much more than training and skills acquisition. Indeed, the schoolhouse—even metaphorically—is important because it is where we can find ourselves.