Free Schools and Natural Learning

In the past few weeks we’ve storied some exciting ways to approach education.

In British Columbia, the SelfDesign Learning Community provides distributed learning programs for students from kindergarten to Grade 12.

Individual students — or as they are called at SelfDesign, learners — are at the core of everything, and they have the freedom to make a lot of choices around how they learn.

Vice-principal Barbarah Nicoll shares how the school nurtures natural learning, as we are all born experts at learning. It’s a matter of creating an environment where the individual  learner follows his or her passions and interests.

Another story features an upcoming documentary project filmed by Amanda Wilder on what life is like in a free school. She took footage during the first two years of the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey.

Having succeeded in crowd funding the costs of editing through a Kickstarter campaign, Amanda expects the documentary to be released later this spring or fall.

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Towards a new learning narrative,
Jennifer

Jennifer Neutel is a story advocate, generative journalist and the curator of the Lifelong Learning section on AxiomNews.ca.

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