A podcast about big ideas in education.
About Learning
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A podcast about big ideas in education.
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1/5/2021
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January 23, 2023
How Change Happens (with Peter Gray)
<p>Peter Gray has spent much of his career demonstrating how children learn through play. His book “Free to Learn” helped fuel the unschooling movement - but will the educational mainstream ever shift in response?</p> <p>This episode explores Peter’s hopes that we will reach a tipping point - beyond which self-directed learning becomes the norm - and his fears about what may prevent it.</p> <p><strong>Timings:</strong></p> <p>01:30 Free to Learn</p> <p>17:40 The Tipping Point theory of social change</p> <p>36:14 Peter’s education journey</p> <p>53:02 A personal update from Stan</p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <p>Peter Gray is the author of Free to Learn: <a href="https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/peter-gray/free-to-learn/9780465084999/"><u>https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/peter-gray/free-to-learn/9780465084999/</u></a></p> <p>What happens to graduates of Sudbury Valley School? <a href="https://www.self-directed.org/resource/gray-and-chanoff-1986/"><u>https://www.self-directed.org/resource/gray-and-chanoff-1986/</u></a></p> <p>Fact check: long-term trends suggests the US home-school rate is around 5%, but a Covid-era survey suggested 10% of parents intended to home-school: <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/317852/parents-satisfaction-child-education-slips.aspx"><u>https://news.gallup.com/poll/317852/parents-satisfaction-child-education-slips.aspx</u></a></p>
July 22, 2022
The Capability Approach
<p>How should we measure educational success? Stan speaks to Ka Ya Lee, a PhD candidate from Harvard University, to discuss the capability approach.</p> <p>Currently, we mainly measure success by scores on standardised tests. Our fixation with results has warped the way we treat young people, and says little about children’s wellbeing. It gives the child no say in how they want to grow as a person. Is there another way?</p> <p>Pioneered by economist Amartya Sen, the capability approach to human welfare “emphasizes the importance of freedom of choice, individual heterogeneity and the multi-dimensional nature of welfare”*. Ka Ya is asking: can the capability approach be applied to education?</p> <p>* The capability approach on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach</p>
June 14, 2022
Integrity
<p>Stan speaks to May Ling Thomas about Integrity. What does it mean as a parent, a teacher or a human, to stay true to one’s values?</p> <p>May Ling is a home-educating Mum with powerful parenting convictions. She believes in letting go of damaging expectations about how things “should” be done so that we can put the love back in our relationships.</p> <p>What does integrity mean for parents? Should we care what other people think? Should we worry for our children’s futures? Does integrity mean staying true to your feelings or to your intellectual ideals?</p>
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