Integral Learning Rhizome

UNESCO’s futures of education initiative is catalyzing a global debate on how knowledge and learning can shape the future of humanity and the planet. A new report from the International Commission on the Futures of education, in preparation for 2 years, and based on the inputs and engagement of over a million people, presents a vision for forging a new social contract for education.

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379707/PDF/379707eng.pdf.multi

Don’t miss the Water Matters Mela on the 7-8-9 October!! 💦❤️💫

Connecting to nature through education in nature. Learning by doing. 💚

We planted around 280 trees last week! 🌳
A special thank you goes to our small (and big) helpers that come on Saturday and planted with so much energy and joy! 🌿

https://vimeo.com/235860094

On Future Education

On Future Education 2017 Eng What is Knowledge? What do we know about ourselves? What is integral learning? What is Consciousness?

https://www.context.org/iclib/ic27/orr/

What Is Education For? We are accustomed to thinking of learning as good in and of itself. But as environmental educator David Orr reminds us, our education up till now has in some ways created a monster. This essay is a…

https://adventure.auroville.com/index.php/2021/06/19/to-see-a-world-in-a-tray-of-sand-the-world-game-in-auroville/?fbclid=IwAR0zX0CtkO2BNultXvBLFIgwBhyyDH5I_VKw4UMSMaHhw4wasuOzWRkbm2Y

To See a World in a Tray of Sand: The World Game in Auroville » The Auroville Adventure If you can build any world you can imagine, what would it look like? The World Game has been part of education in Auroville since the 70's.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-alternative-economies-are-inspirations-for-a-sustainable-world/

These Alternative Economies Are Inspirations for a Sustainable World Making peace with the biosphere will require building communities and relationships that are focused on protecting life—human and nonhuman

Not A Chance: How Self-Directed Children Find New Things to Learn, by Dr Naomi Fisher - Progressive Education When I start talking about self-directed education, one of the first questions which comes up is, but what about exposure? Surely children don’t know all the things which are out there, and it’s our responsibility to make sure that they do? Isn’t that what an education is all about? How can we...

Auroville was given the work to be a laboratory for the emergence of an education with a new purpose.

To leave the present structures of schooling children towards the growth mindset of capitalism in the past.

To do this by this by implementing new structures that will move education from competition to collaboration, from standardization and comparison to encouraging and valuing differences, from outer expectations to the inner needs of each child. 💚