Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
added by Keely Adler and · updated 1d ago
added by Keely Adler and · updated 1d ago
The pandemic revealed the fractures, biases, and inadequacies of our social systems. Education was not immune.
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what is education for? The purpose of education has held different narratives throughout history. Is it preparing young people to join the contemporary conversation the world is engaged in? Or merely to join the workforce as skilled laborers?
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Why do we sit in a classroom at all? Why do we remove ourselves from the extraordinarily rich experience tapestries of living to place ourselves in artificial containers of instruction?
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Today, it may not merely be that we confuse process with substance; rather, our failure to question our processes or interrogate our actions may be symptomatic of a more significant concern: Curiosity is an endangered species.
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It’s not that we should be wary of stories themselves; rather, we should be wary of losing ourselves inside them. We need to acknowledge how stories can become tidal waves that overpower us and swallow us whole. We can become the characters that others assign to us, unwittingly performing a role that constrains our self-aware choices. Without knowi
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Where do the power structures and agency of learning reside? Who has power: the learner, or the educator and the institutions that deliver education services?
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It is not enough to raise awareness and launch an assault upon legacy narratives. To successfully dissolve them, we need to articulate what a healthier alternative may look like.
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Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it.”
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The best way to teach curiosity is to throw ourselves at living. To make life our classroom, and our tremendous bundles of experiences our curriculum.
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