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OUR VISION

as a list in no particular order

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Our project aligns with UNESCO's Futures of Education report

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which advocates the re-purposing of education to address BIG issues.

micro-local universities....

...academia should become a network of micro-local universities...
...they would be tiny, diverse, post-disciplinary & innovative...
...grassroots organisations developing better ways to live...

with an autodidactic approach...

...an unschool approach would encourage bespoke learning for all
...learners would learn to learn more playfully, imaginatively & autonomously.
...each individual would learn how to become more independent, resourceful and creative.

that brokers complementary learning...

...micro-universities would broker creative learning partnerships...
...in order to catalyse our collective response to global emergencies...
...they would raise global consciousness and seed a synergy of synergies

in a ...

...students would experience a range of learning approaches.
...e.g. they would seek to learn with head, hand, heart and humour
...our Self Evaluating Learning Framework helps learners to map the process...

paradigm change

...their contagious optimism would spread, diversify and co-evolve...
...this would help us transition towards an ecocentric paradigm...
...they would become a collaborative network for ecological wisdom.

...no fixed curriculum

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...coaching would be tailored to each individual learner's aspirations & needs
...learners might adapt our rudimentary working definition of shamanism.
...learners would contribute what they know to a shared curriculum

harnessing team neurodiversities

...ideally, mutual learning partnerships would be expected to innovate on behalf of society.
...learners would work in self-governing, neurodiverse teams (4 to 6 individuals).
...knowledge exchange would also be generative, reciprocal and sympoietic.

microscopias and macroscopias

...formal teaching would reconcile the universal (time/space) with celebrating the 'here and now'.
...this would create a relaxed space (1 billion years of free sunshine) in which to reimagine survival.
...see our long-termist map including the microscopias and macroscopias

affordable

...the programme would not be subject to fees or monetary repayment.
...instead, learners would be contracted to supporting future learners.
...some of the first learner cohort may be refugees from other places.