The Role of Community

How can we shift the paradigm where conventional schools have monopolized socialization? How can we liberate families from factory-like schedules they are obliged to follow and give them more sense of control over their children’s learning process? How can we give the children their right back to choose what to learn and when? How can we create a world where anyone can be both a teacher and a student, education for everyone by everyone, just like philosopher Ivan Illich had envisioned in his book Deschooling Society? Can local community be as democratic and liberating as the online community? Does your corner bakery allow kids to come and learn how to bake bread?

Co-hosts: 

Martha Skinner, former professor of architecture, artist who works together with her daughter, now a young adult

Marta Obiols Llistar, unschooling mom of three, educator, author of the book 18, An Unschooling Experience

Guest Speaker:

Bovy Wongwattanakit, entrepreneur, educator, education solution developer, founder of Heyah Tribe 

Resources:

Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (Huis Clos) and three other plays https://www.vanderbilt.edu/olli/class-materials/Jean-Paul_Sartre.pdf

Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society. Marion Boyars, 2017

Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Spiegel & Grau, 2018

John Holt, How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development). De Capo Lifelong Books, 1995