In praise of confinement.

A review of school space in post-pandemic times

Abstract

Closure, confinement, isolation, were terms used to characterize the modern school. In recent times, another kind of quarantine has built new boundaries between the inside and the outside. Going to school was interrupted, and his special proposal was transferred to home, to television, to radio, to the networks. A confinement altered the old scene and made strange the everyday life. Can we continue supporting the idea of school as a space of confinement, after having gone through this isolation that left our children and young people out of school? Wich is the role of the edges of school? How can we rethink its special configuration? We want to review the links between school and confinement and return to its initial meanings. And, within the framework of social isolation policies, we want to rethink the scope and productivity of this link, and to redefine it and to find its meaning in the struggles for justice.