An inquiry into how the dominant culture and economic imperative shapes cognition and education and an exploration of alternatives to education as we know it. The session will start with the necessity of becoming a student of our times and take a look at the atrophied aspects of being that are obfuscated and left out of modern education.
About the speakers:
Lynn Murphy is a strategic advisor for foundations and NGOs working in the geopolitical South. She was a senior fellow and program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she focused on international education and global development. She resigned as a”‘conscientious objector” to neocolonial philanthropy. She holds an MA and PhD in international comparative education from Stanford University. She is also a certified Laban/Bartenieff movement analyst.
Adam Oosthuizen completed a BA in Philosophy and Film studies and then spent 5 years working in the on stories in Virtual Reality on Environmental, Health, Food Aid and Epistemology. Guided by a sense that inter-being is greater than individualism - Adam found himself living in an experimental Post-Capitalist community in Costa Rica and working as a researcher on Post-Capitalist Philanthropy. Adam is interested in the subversion of ideas in the technology and knowledge production complex and the ways that it serves to sustain existing paradigms of extraction.
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This session was recorded at the Re-Imagining Education Conference 3.0, hosted by the Ecoversities Alliance and partnering organizations and communities from around the world. It is an annual online conference to radically re-imagine the future of education. In 2023 it was held from April 27th to 30th.
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