S5 EP2 Will Richardson on Why the Status Quo in Education Fails Today’s Learners

PODCAST Season 5 EPISODE 2
 
Will Richardson
Founder
Future Serious School
 
Quote of the Podcast:
"The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world, full stop." ~Dougald Hine
 
 
Introduction of Guest BIO –
Will is a lifelong educator who, after 22 years in the classroom, has worked with educators in over 25 countries to push their thinking about the purpose and practice of schooling in a time of deepening challenges and emerging opportunities for change. He is a parent, an author of six books, and the founder of Future Serious Schools. His recent manifesto "Confronting Education in a Time of Complexity, Chaos, and Collapse" is a provocation for a new "why" of schooling and the foundation for a seven-week workshop of the same title which is now entering its third cohort.
 
Interview
Agents of Change: Leaders/Innovators.
 

• 30,000 Ft. View – Why so we, as a society invest in education?
• What drew you to education?
• Tell us about Future Serious Schools
• Share the essence of your Manifesto
• Share what people will gain from participating in your next cohort
• What are the biggest challenges to you?
• What would you like decision makers to know?”

 
Podcast/ website/ book shoutouts
 
Website: https://futureserious.school/
Manifesto: https://futureserious.school/manifestoedu/
Books: Hospicing Modernity, Education in a Time Between Worlds, At Work in the Ruins, Pedagogies of Collapse.
Podcasts: The Great Turning, The Great Simplification, Future Learning Design.
 
Education Perspectives is edited by Shashank P
Intro and Outro by Dynamix Productions
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