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The Resources
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The newly published book by James Mannion titled Making Change Stick will be considered first. It draws on implementation science and looks at education remaining stuck in the economy mentality as a people problem. James gave this talk at the INSPIRE Education Summit last November.
Don Berg’s new book titled The Agentic Schools Manifesto will be discussed next. Don is one of the foremost thinker about how to bridge between the old and the new. He gave this talk at the 2022 IDEC.
The final session are to consider the role of technology, including AI, in the future of education. The starting point is to be the PHEONIX platform of World Systems Solutions and its potential to support a global, all-encompassing new age of learning needed to promote human flourishing and to sustain life on earth.
Derry Hannam is to be the host of the book club. He is one of the strongest voices for bridging between the old and the new. He’s book Another Way is Possible – Becoming a Democratic Teacher in a State School results from his years of experience teaching in public schools. He now champions the 20% Proposal which he presents in this Learning Planet Festival event that took place January 28th. This event included Mia Schmallenbach, the producer of the QUEST documentary film Suvemäe – Pioneer of Possibility and Charlie Moreno-Romero who founded the Suvemäe school in Estonia. Suvemäe is a school based on human rights and democratic principles and operates as a school within a conventional school.
Je’anna Clements and Sifaan Zavahir have done much conceptualization work required to pull education into alignment with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This talk by them at the INSPIRE Education Summit gives an excellent overview of what it involves.