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Benjamin, Biocentrism, Posthumanism, Regenerative Design

Regenerative Education: Quality Emerges Through Community Voices

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Regenerative Education: Quality Emerges Through Community Voices

Regenerative education rejects the old ways of assessing students as individuals, considering skills as ends, and allowing projects to languish on the Google drive. Instead, it invites us to listen deeply to the voices in our community (human and other-than-human) who have engaged with and been affected by each project. Regenerative education calls for new [...]

Benjamin, Curriculum

What if teachers were required to go on externships as part of their professional development?

by Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.Leave a Comment on What if teachers were required to go on externships as part of their professional development?
What if teachers were required to go on externships as part of their professional development?

I have been thinking quite a bit recently (and I am certainly not the only one) about how much of the curriculum delivered in the classroom actually prepares students for success in their professional and personal lives. There is so much discourse out there about 21st-century skills and the preponderance of competency development over knowledge [...]