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Deconstructing education & putting it back together in a meaningful way.
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Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Sunday Nov 04, 2018
Kateryna Yasko is a Ukrainian educator, psychologist and trainer.
She is the founder & director of the NGO "International Institute for Integral Development" (IIID) and works with the training and consulting company U-Integral. She is also involved with the educational initiative EMPATIA.PRO
Her enthusiasm and deep-hearted care shine throughout our conversation. We discuss the different values at play in Ukranian educational reform, non-violent communication and how her work is helping to develop innovative educators.
https://www.facebook.com/MiipIiid/
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
At this time of spooks and spectres, how does the other side deal with education?
Today we talk a tongue in cheek look at how the traditional Hogwarts school, the mainstream Gravedale High and the incredibly progressive Monster Academy educate their cohort of vampires, werewolves and mummies!
Its just for fun, but you never know, we might learn something as we drop our serious schtick for once and over analyze All Ghoul Schools!
Sunday Oct 28, 2018
Sunday Oct 28, 2018
Silke Weiss is an innovative educator from Germany.
Her work with Lernkulturezeit contributes seminars, retreats and symposiums which serve teachers not only as professionals, but people as well. We discuss the importance of authentic relating in schools, how we spend our lives at school and teaching as a life path.
https://www.lernkulturzeit.de/
Monday Oct 08, 2018
Monday Oct 08, 2018
On this episode, we speak with Traian, Ana and Corina of the Alternative University in Bucharest Romania.
The Alternative University makes my University experience look like a joke.
We discuss how...
- a school can serve the role of a coach as well as an educator.
- a school or university can be flexible with its systems & communities to meet student needs.
- to think about a student's relationship with learning.
- to foster self-directed learning and self-directed living.
- developing a portfolio of real-life projects serves a person entering the workforce more than a diploma
Article from Medium about the Alternative University
https://medium.com/@reimaginaire/self-directed-learning-at-the-alternative-university-eacc94b823dd
Alternative University Website
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Today we talk to Armin Sieber, of the Integrale Tagesschule Winterthur in Switzerland.
We discuss:
-the school's application of Sociocracy
-the imagined barrier of school life vs. real life for students
-how structures within a school can be adapted to best meet the needs that students have
-how not trying to have all of the answers helps to find meaningful answers
Armin has curated a variety of resources to share with listeners that can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l3ghpru4wpnpjsf/Reinventing%20Education%20materials.zip?dl=0
Integrale Tagesschule Website
Sunday Sep 09, 2018
Sunday Sep 09, 2018
Chris Balme is the co-founder and head of the Millennium School in San Francisco.
We discuss the school's unique approach to serve students in adolescence.
Find out more about Millennium School at:
https://www.millenniumschool.org/
Read through the insightful blog Chris has created at:
https://www.growingwiser.blog/
Sunday Aug 26, 2018
Sunday Aug 26, 2018
Ep8 is a summary of our first seven episodes. We define the 4 values impacting education in 2018: self-discipline, ambition, sensitivity & development.
Each value has very different ideas about what education should look like and this is why education is a mess. This episode is an easy entry point for new listeners & the weaving together of threads for those who have been with us before.
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
Sunday Jul 15, 2018
As a value in education, development attempts to leverage the strengths and weaknesses of the previous 3 values (self-discipline, ambition & sensitivity) to prepare students for life in the VUCA world.
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
Sunday Jul 01, 2018
The Sensitivity approach to education has had two main goals:
1) address how unfair school has been
2) deconstruct what we have considered a school education to be
It has helped to solve many problems but may end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
Sunday Jun 17, 2018
The value of ambition has shaped what we think school education must look like.
School is now a filter.
Students are tested and their achievement dictates what next steps are available to them n school and in the job market.
If you have ambition you can climb the ladder.
Referenced in the podcast: Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History: Carlos Doesn't Remember
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-wvvk4-19adc21