[Part 1] From Democratic Free Schools to Democratic Free Communities

Hey all!

I'm an advocate for self-directed education, and more specifically democratic free schools. I'm a member of a network of "progressive schools" in Texas, and on the side I make videos about topics that interest me.

I just released Part 1 of a 2 part video series on democratic education! The series both introduces the basics of democratic free schools, an inspiring directly democratic, self-directed school model, while fleshing out a critique of the tendency of some of these schools to fall into hyper-individualism, at the expense of engaging in the broader community.

This critique comes from a place of love from within the free school movement, and can be summarized by the question "How can we spend so much effort building free, empowered, radically democratic, and communal personalities in our schools and then send the kids out into a broader society that is so profoundly unfree, disempowering, hierarchical, and atomized?"

In this video, I call for advocates of democratic free schools to use our shared principles as a lens to look outward, in order to shape the broader world into "democratic free communities" fit for kids raised in freedom and autonomy.

I don't know to what extent alternative education gets discussed on this sub, but if this interests anyone, I'd love your feedback!

https://youtu.be/KjYELKhtDJ8

Submitted May 07, 2019 at 09:57PM by meangreen2018 http://bit.ly/2YlyY93