Interesting Initiatives
Kelly Teamey and Udi Mandel gave up their university jobs and travelled the world to make a documentary about alternative learning options and answer some of the questions:
Click here to read more about this interesting project and visit their website ENLIVENED LEARNING. |
Forest Schools of the Future
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In alignment with Anastasia’s (Ringing Cedar series) approach to child raising is Mikhail Petrovich Shchetinin who founded a forest school in Southern Russia on the shores of the picturesque Black Sea fourteen years ago. Originally a music teacher by profession, Shchetinin had a long and distinguished career in experiential education. He is the recipient of several awards and in 1991 he was honored with the title, Akademik (Academician) by the Russian Academy of Education. Shchetinin and Anastasia believe that all children are born with the full store of ancestral information, knowledge and wisdom already within them.
Proving this, Shchetinin developed a model school for the future where ordinary pupils, without much help from adult teachers, cover the whole 11-year curriculum of the compulsory school system in just two years and get official bachelor’s and master’s degrees from accredited universities by the time they are seventeen. Read more... |