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Amor. Love. That is a word which, as a British special needs teacher, I cannot say has graced my head teacher’s lips during meetings about resources and support for my students.
And yet, during one school visit after another over the course of the NUT Cuba delegation programme, the word amor cropped up in the head teachers’ speeches as an important underlying principle guiding Cuban pedagogy.
Just take a moment to think about that concept: love as the bedrock of state policy.
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