- "KIP" (Complex Instruction Program).
- Some christian school in the United Snakes made up a teaching method, which one of my Professor at Uni took and adopted to the hungarian schools. KIP is hated by all teachers I know for various reasons and apparently teachers have mostly stopped doing it in 2018. Nonetheless this is my first time being able to apply it if I want to. The university I am studying at thinks of this as the solution to all problems, which is idealist to say the least. Have any of y'all heard about this? It was made by these people: Article about the program itself
and other sources to the papers I could find - 1; 2; 3
Do you have an opinion on this as well as, can you recommend me anything you think could help me teaching these young kids alternative to this (resources, teaching methods, etc)? The reason why I am asking this, because in the mighty EU, the best economic system possible and glorious western democracy, we still have many tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of kids growing up in absolute poverty (just in my country), meaning no food and clothing security. These kids' families are struggling to feed themselves, can not or only hardly find jobs (if they do it's a construction site job or the minimal wage jobs the local councils can offer them), and they do not have the ability to clothe themselves at all at times, not to mention not having clothes that fit the changing seasons (meaning wearing T-shirts and shorts in december, it's not unusual not being able to wash the clothes either, they can wear a fit for a month straight or with little variation until they can afford the cheapest replacements next month). As well as hygene is a problem. Now, I don't know what we all think about the Maslow pyramid, I guess it has been concluded as outdated by now many times, but I kinda get the part where: when we don't know what we can have for dinner tomorrow or we run out of money on the first day of getting it to hand, then we can kinda don't give a flying fuck about studying this or that. So, all in all, I'd be looking for ways to teach them something in this harsh environment they are facing. Sadly, in the parliament, on paper, these people just simply don't exist. Capitalism hides them and doesn't acknowledge them/hushes them away. These kids are dubbed as "dumb" and "lazy", while obviously the white kids are superior to them in all aspects, "hard working" and "smart". Essentially it's just plain racism of the whites against romanis. They are blamed for everyting. Everything is their fault, whether in the present or later on in life (while the white kids performance is the fault of the teachers, just to put it in context). Now, I despise saviour complex, so please be realistic. I am just mainly asking because I don't think frontal work is what they need (or it's the type of teaching method that can work), it's more so giving them love, care, and helping them out acquiring skills that they can use in their lives or later in school (which is not the likely scenario - only very small percentages go to high-schools). What I mostly had in mind is just to be human, empathetic, talk a lot with them and guide them to the best of my ability, sadly nobody is expecting anything of them, they are written off as useless and non-human by society and I am afraid, 35 years after we lost socialism, this looks to be an ever increasing trend, towards our minorities (mostly romani).