SKILL

Write a school page for: $ARGUMENTS

Instructions

1. Read the style guide at content/writing/texts/style-guide.md.

2. Read at least two existing school pages to understand the established pattern:

   • content/education/disciplines/pedagogy/schools/critical-pedagogy/index.md
   • content/education/disciplines/pedagogy/schools/indigenous-pedagogies/index.md

3. Identify the school’s intellectual context. Check what already exists:

find content/education/disciplines/pedagogy/schools -name "index.md" | sort

4. Read relevant term pages, people pages, and cross-domain references (sociology, philosophy) that connect to this school.

5. Propose the school page to emsenn before writing. The proposal should include:

   • School name and where it fits among existing schools
   • 2-3 core claims the tradition makes
   • Key thinkers (with dates and affiliations where relevant)
   • How it relates to existing school pages
   • What the critiques section will cover

6. After confirmation, write the school page following this structure:

Required school page structure

Location: content/education/disciplines/pedagogy/schools/{school-slug}/index.md

Frontmatter:

---
title: "School Name"
aliases:
  - "School Name"
  - "school name"
date-created: [current ISO 8601]
type: school
tags:
  - [relevant tags]
---

Body sections, in order:

• Opening paragraph: 3-5 sentences. What this tradition IS, where it comes from, what it asserts about education. No hedging — state the core position clearly.

• Core claims or common threads: What the tradition argues. Use bold labels for each claim. These are the tradition’s assertions about education — not neutral descriptions but committed positions.

• Key thinkers and texts: Named individuals with their works, dates, and brief descriptions of contributions. Use full names on first mention with [[wikilinks]] to people pages. Include nationality, tribal affiliation, or institutional context where relevant.

• Relationship to other traditions: How this school connects to, differs from, or conflicts with other pedagogical traditions represented in the vault. Use [[wikilinks]] to other school pages. Be specific about points of convergence and divergence — not “X is related to Y” but “X shares Y’s commitment to Z but differs on W.”

• Critiques and limitations: Honest assessment of the tradition’s blind spots, tensions, and boundaries. Every school page MUST have this section. Include:

  • Internal tensions within the tradition
  • Critiques from other traditions
  • What the tradition cannot address or does poorly
  • Medium limitations (what cannot be transmitted through text)

Rules

• Every school page MUST have a Critiques and limitations section. A tradition presented without critique is propaganda, not scholarship.
• Name the people. Intellectual traditions are made by specific people in specific contexts. Do not present ideas as free-floating.
• Cross-link to other domains. Pedagogical traditions connect to sociology (social reproduction, decolonization), philosophy (epistemology, ethics), and other education disciplines (learning theory, knowledge transmission). Make these connections explicit.
• Do not flatten diversity. If a school encompasses multiple distinct traditions (as Indigenous pedagogies encompasses hundreds of nations), say so explicitly.
• Cite sources with [@citekey]. Check bibliography.bib for existing entries.

7. After writing, check for term pages that should link to this school and update them.