LEAP Science and Maths School– An Anthropologically- Grounded Education Intervention Model During COVID-19 Volume 3 - Issue 1

John Gilmour¹ and AnitraThorhaug²*

• ¹Founder, Leap Science and Maths Schools, South Africa
• ²Yale University and President Greater Caribbean Energy & Environment Foundation, USA

Received: November 15, 2020   Published: December 08, 2020

Corresponding author: Anitra Thorhaug, Yale University, and President Greater Caribbean Energy & Environment Foundation, USA

DOI: 10.32474/JAAS.2020.03.000155

 

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Abstract

During COVID-19 the learning experience for students entirely from the lowest quintile of the South African Black population proved highly difficult after the South African government closed all schools in March,2020, especially for secondary schools. A remarkable values-driven culturally coherent Leap Schools of Science and Maths with six campuses utilized cell phones to continue teaching and engaging the students. The necessity was due to the inability of families of students to provide other internet connections. The new methodology of learning of Leap Schools includes the skill of teachers in consciousness-raising and the extraordinary resilience of the students. Students were grounded by LEAP methodology in both anthropologically designed activities and consciousness-raising and showed self-determination at a mature level surpassing the public school students as assessed by the Department of Education of South Africa.

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