About Learning
@_AboutLearning
A podcast about big ideas in education. Created by @StanPinsent.
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Season 3 is finally here! #Freedom is our running theme: how can we liberate learners from the drudgery of “the system”? Featuring @thoughtrecord, @Fran_Mc5, @PiersBenn and more. Ep 1 coming this week! Trailer: anchor.fm/aboutlearning/…
"Unregistered" schools are not inherently bad. We need a vision for how religious & other indoctrination can be kept in check without giving the state a monopoly on education.
The biggest threat to the upcoming education revolution is.... government legislation! Germany has banned home schooling. Education reformers need to make sure this never happens in UK & US. anchor.fm/aboutlearning/…
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How Change Happens (with Peter Gray) by About Learning
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...
Parents went along with foot-binding because they thought it was necessary to secure their daughters' futures. Now we know the pain & cruelty was unjustified. But we still think of childhood as a time to sacrifice for the future.
What if the pain of coercive schooling was completely uneccessary? How Children Acquire "Academic" Skills Without Formal Instruction by Peter Gray shop.aer.io/AllianceforSel…
This is a big threat to home-ed families and learning communities, who risk being babies thrown out with the bathwater. Need to show how brainwash factories can be legislated against without making state-schooling mandatory!
Hope Sussex school trains next generation of conspiracy theorists Horrific story thetimes.co.uk/article/c4f74e…
NEW EPISODE after 6-month hiatus! The great Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn, on his hopes for a creeping education revolution - and what might stop it. anchor.fm/aboutlearning/…
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How Change Happens (with Peter Gray) by About Learning
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...
Free resource! Check out our new book featuring a foreword by Peter Gray & conclusion by Alison James with over 60 contributors’ playful interventions. download your free copy today! #playinhighereducation #academia #highereducation #criticalpedagogy press.etc.cmu.edu/books/professo…
So, I went on a podcast and talked about my dissertation and the Capability Approach. Thanks for having me, @_AboutLearning !
⭐️New episode!!⭐️ Test results are a shallow measure of success. Is there another way? A conversation with @kayalee1018 of @hgse #HarvardHealth anchor.fm/aboutlearning/…
Throwback: Democratic Schools with Fran McCarthy! @Fran_Mc5 anchor.fm/aboutlearning/…
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Democratic Schools by About Learning
Stan speaks to Fran McCarthy, who has dedicated her career to schools in which children are free. Fran is a behaviour expert, runs workshops on conflict management, and is founding a democratic...
Last week I talked to @Ed_Miliband and @GeoffLloyd about how and why I think our education system needs to change to put psychological well-being first, Listen to it here.
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Our education system isn’t working for many children and young people, but it doesn’t have to be this way. @Ed_Miliband & @GeoffLloyd talk to 3 experts about why change is a no-brainer: 🧑🏫@RethinkingJames 👪@naomicfisher 📢@SprakesA pod.fo/e/15c0cf
a week since the open evening at @new_school_uk and still feeling so hopeful that another method of education is available where children are not groomed to be products of a system 🔥
Tomorrow I'm recording with the great Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn! Anyone have any questions for him? goodreads.com/book/show/1584…
I hosted a thing!
Missed the event on Saturday? You can download it as a podcast! How can schools be inclusive for all young people? @teamsquarepeg @Sophia_Sinclair @dchartboyles anchor.fm/HumanScaleEduc…
"What is “fair game” when it comes to levelling the educational playing field?"
Should we ban private schools? Nobody's asking, but I have an answer @AbolishEton stanpinsent.wordpress.com/2022/09/27/sho…
Can #Education learn anything from philosophers? Some thoughts on the @PhilOfEdGB conference. stanpinsent.wordpress.com/2022/09/18/my-…
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My Weekend as a Philosopher
Reflections from the PESGB conference
Toddlers can choose what toys to play with. teenagers have to ask to use the toilet. Nursery provides more autonomy than school! #reconf22 with @naomicfisher
Apparently I write about podcasts, too
How (not) to start a podcast episode. Includes praise for @HiddenBrain and How We're Wired (@Bertarelli_fdn) stanpinsent.wordpress.com/2022/09/12/pod…
The traditional education system is built for every possible life path, which means it's optimized for no particular life path. For almost every life path, it's *not* the best preparation.
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