Rethinking how we educate people.

This video is a call to action for educators and individuals choosing how they want to education themselves and their children. The words spoken remind me of social theorist Jurgen Habermas who describes education as needing to go beyond the political and the financial, to find ways of educating humans to become a new kind of individual as global citizen. This starts at the connecting point between individual human interests and knowledge while developing “dispositions, values and attitudes necessary for lifelong learning with a view to developing ongoing communicative action” (Crick and Joldserma, abstract). People are given the opportunity to participate in their own education, one which “focuses on the quality of dialogue and discourse, student voice, contextual knowledge and [its] relevance to students’ lives and narratives” (Crick and Joldserma, 87). Engaging in an education that “uses transformative, dialogical and participatory pedagogies” puts students in the position of becoming a co-creator in the education of both self and other -- teacher to student, student to student, culture to culture (Crick and Joldserma 87). It asks educators to look beyond the simplicity of accountability and mundane citizenship, to instead, a transformative experience that is central to the human lifeworld, one that moves away from the current educational paradigm that has created citizens “indifferent to culture, society and personality”(Crick and Joldersma 87).