Transformative Education Center

• Education conditions the mind towards entrenched ways of thinking or merely answering questions with little emphasis on understanding the questions themselves, or questioning the assumptions in the questions. Through this repeated pattern, our sense of discovery also withers. 

• A fundamental structure of education at most schools/universities involves knowledge transfer from the one who ‘knows’ to the one who doesn't. When this process is repeated, the human mind and behavior are conditioned in ways that prohibit creative thinking and action. 

• To solve issues arising from the struggle of fitting into patterns, new methods and techniques are introduced which aim to address issues in isolation (e.g., social emotional learning, academic learning, mindfulness, management techniques, etc.). These may seem like solutions but they perpetuate the accumulation of more patterns and further fragmentation. 

The Transformative Education Center explores and addresses problems we see with the educational status quo.

• 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)?