Re-Imagining Education
Fiscal Host: The Social Change Nest
a project that aims to understand the impacts of the UK schooling system, create radical spaces for young people to explore the roots of youth oppression while empowering and supporting them to find belonging, connection and authenticity
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About
Youth are systematically disempowered and oppressed by the schooling system in the UK.
XR Youth, XR Uni's and UKSCN protest at the Department for Education (October 2019). Photograph by Talia WoodinIf you’re someone looking for a way to contribute to someone or something that’s working to change the ways we live as a society by empowering and supporting young people, this is your call.
The schooling system we currently have has seen little change since its origin around 200 years ago, at a time when colonisation, industrialisation and patriarchy were accepted as dominant aspects of society. We need to question how these injustices have imprinted themselves in the way education has been institutionalised in this country; and how prejudices have been handed down the generations.
Instead of celebrating the strengths of youth (our curiosity, boundary-pushing, creativity and imagination), educational institutions are built to place us on the three-rung ladder from school, to career, then retirement; we are taught to accept the status-quo.
The ways in which we are taught to see the world inform how we act in the world. Giving children and young people the chance to find connection, belonging and purpose will have a far-reaching impact on our society.
Instead of celebrating the strengths of youth (our curiosity, boundary-pushing, creativity and imagination), educational institutions are built to place us on the three-rung ladder from school, to career, then retirement; we are taught to accept the status-quo.
The ways in which we are taught to see the world inform how we act in the world. Giving children and young people the chance to find connection, belonging and purpose will have a far-reaching impact on our society.
Changing the way we are educated gives us the potential to sow the seeds for deeply-rooted global change.
The lack of support for young people to explore and question how they are in the world has lifelong effects. Our children become adults who have no real idea of their identity, place and purpose. The current dominant Western schooling system simply is not fit, and never has been, for the needs of the world we live in.
These problems with the schooling system are known, talked about and agreed with and yet are seen as just the way things are. This can not continue. Continuing to allow the schooling system to stay as it is is creating a foundation to the world's most pressing and distressing problems.
These problems with the schooling system are known, talked about and agreed with and yet are seen as just the way things are. This can not continue. Continuing to allow the schooling system to stay as it is is creating a foundation to the world's most pressing and distressing problems.
What this project aims to do is to create a workshop that supports young people to explore, question and feel what affect school has on them, and then act on it.
It is essential that things change with the rising mental health crisis, poverty and calls for change to curriculum in terms of climate change and black history.
3 main points that will be explored:
- Content
- With calls for the curriculum to change getting louder and louder it's important that the change created from this need is not surface level. While a few classes about climate change or black history may be included in the curriculum it will have little positive effect unless the environment, the structure and the way that the classes are taught changes. The classism, divides, hierarchies and oppression that exist in this country is upheld and supported by the structure and purpose of school.
- These conversations can no longer be about statistics. Young people must be supported to process the grief, shame and guilt that can come about when hearing history and learning how these ways of being are still happening today.
- These conversations can no longer be about statistics. Young people must be supported to process the grief, shame and guilt that can come about when hearing history and learning how these ways of being are still happening today.
- With calls for the curriculum to change getting louder and louder it's important that the change created from this need is not surface level. While a few classes about climate change or black history may be included in the curriculum it will have little positive effect unless the environment, the structure and the way that the classes are taught changes. The classism, divides, hierarchies and oppression that exist in this country is upheld and supported by the structure and purpose of school.
- Emotional Literacy
- It has often been described that school trains people to be in the real world, that until you finish school you are not fully equipped to deal with the 'adult' world. It is getting increasingly hard to believe this is true, or that it ever has been.
- The complete and utter lack of support and teaching for young people on how to acknowledge, listen and track their feelings is having catastrophic effects on the youth today as well as the 'adults' that go into the 'real world' and make choices for future generations and countries. Conflict and grief is rife through all circles of this country, often caused and perpetuated by people who are not only emotionally illiterate but also have been taught to conceal their emotions...unless they help you get a 'good' career. Unless this is changed the differences that we wish to make in the world will move further and further beyond our reach as the patterns of trauma, emotional neglect and disenchantment with the world and each other becomes more entrenched in our lives.
- The complete and utter lack of support and teaching for young people on how to acknowledge, listen and track their feelings is having catastrophic effects on the youth today as well as the 'adults' that go into the 'real world' and make choices for future generations and countries. Conflict and grief is rife through all circles of this country, often caused and perpetuated by people who are not only emotionally illiterate but also have been taught to conceal their emotions...unless they help you get a 'good' career. Unless this is changed the differences that we wish to make in the world will move further and further beyond our reach as the patterns of trauma, emotional neglect and disenchantment with the world and each other becomes more entrenched in our lives.
- It has often been described that school trains people to be in the real world, that until you finish school you are not fully equipped to deal with the 'adult' world. It is getting increasingly hard to believe this is true, or that it ever has been.
- Nature Connection
- We are nature, nature is us, and yet we like to pretend otherwise. Children are our most important teachers when it comes to showing us how to be in relationship with the rest of our earth family.
- Through school children learn what to value in the world and yet our schools are increasingly separated from nature and instead nature is shown to young people as a passing interest or something to be used as a resource. This too has not only had hugely negative effects on the earth but also on the wellbeing and health of children, young people, adults and elders alike...in simple terms humankind.
- We are nature, nature is us, and yet we like to pretend otherwise. Children are our most important teachers when it comes to showing us how to be in relationship with the rest of our earth family.