We Are Worldbuilders: A Narration

About this episode

The episode features an audio reading of 'We Are Worldbuilders' from the revised Progressive Education Primer, discussing progressive education and inviting listeners to join a summer book club.

Progressive education is a world-building project rooted in the radical hope that schools can become something fit for human beings. This summer, HRP is reading Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World As We Know It, by Ginie Servant-Miklos, and we're inviting you to join us. Visit humanrestorationproject.org/book-club to sign up for our summer book club, where we'll meet to discuss the ideas and implications of Pedagogies of Collapse and be joined by the author, for a Q&A on July 31. I'll include a link to the book in the show notes, which is available on Open Access through Bloomsbury. Hope to see you there! The HRP team has been on the road for 3 of the last 4 weeks. At the end of April, we were on the ground working with Third Coast Learning Collaborative schools in Michigan. Last week, we were in Boston for school visits, meeting with folks at the Boston Museum of Science about an upcoming grant partnership, and I went to prison with Jennifer Berkshire to sit in on her journalism class at MCI-Shirley. At the time of recording, I'm headed to Ohio to present student listening reports to school districts who held focus groups this year based around…

People in this episode

Host: Human Restoration Project

Topics covered

• progressive education
• world-building
• student agency
• book club
• educational philosophy

Keywords

• progressive education
• worldbuilders
• book club
• student agency
• educational philosophy
• Ginie Servant-Miklos
• Pedagogies of Collapse

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Third Coast Learning Collaborative, Boston Museum of Science

Books & works: Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for the End of the World As We Know It, Progressive Education Primer

Places: Michigan, Boston, Ohio, MCI-Shirley

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