Transformative Education Center

Presentations, Conferences, Workshops, Dialogues, Courses, Programs, Study, and Retreats

• University and college courses and programs

E.g. Antioch University, Transformative Education, MEd Concentration & Certificate

• Learning Center/Microschool: also afterschool, unschool, and home school 

E.g. Microschool, SF Bay/Ojai, California 

• Parent education and teacher education

• Resource and research center with books and other resources.

• Online platforms

• Exploring the world within and the world outside

• Inter-and cross-disciplinary explorations in various areas of inquiry

• Tinkering and maker spaces

• Relationship with Nature

• Food, health, yoga/exercise

• Quiet time

• Systems learning

• Teacher Education and Parent Education

• Adult Education: inquiry, dialogues, conferences, workshops, retreats, etc. Activities such as tinkering/making, music, dance, theatre, crafts, science labs, yoga, retreats, etc.

• When teaching, learning, curriculum, schools, and universities are so resolutely structured to demonstrate what we know, what would it mean for ‘not knowing’ to be a point of departure for education.

• What are human aspects of teaching and learning that go beyond Artificial Intelligence (including contextual understanding; deep attention, seeing, and listening; understanding of learners observations, questions, and confusions; generating novel questions)? 

• What does it look like for learning rather than the measurement of learning to be at the heart of an educational center?

• Rather than squeezing learning into the structures of an educational organization, what does it look like for a learning environment to pliably reflect the whole movement of learning and life?

• What kinds of learning experiences lend themselves to people of different ages, experiences, and fluencies to be learning all together, learning in groups, and learning independently – what is the basis for such organization, grouping, and structures?

• What kinds of activities lend themselves to (i) independent learning (ii) learning together (iii) teacher supported learning (and what does teacher support or teaching look like)?