Hear Us Out: Prison VS School with Nicki Farrell
We have a controversial one for you today, especially if you work in education, because today we’re talking about the ways in which prisons and schools are similar and how in at least one way, prisons are better. Buckle in friends, we’re in for an emotional ride!
👉 Nicki Shares
Her experience of enlightenment when her students helped her see the similarities in the prison and school system
Examples of how the two compare
Peter Gray’s take on this topic
How schools “enclose”
The origins of school and how it failed to embrace different approaches
`How schools harm culture
Times are changing, school are not
Management and control practices in schools and questions if this is the best model
Why learning at home was so hard and what it revealed about the school system
Myths about learning
The difference between school and education
Startling stats about time outdoors in schools compared to prisons
How the shift will happen
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Intro to Unschooling Course
Studies Cited
Children are bored and tired
Screen Time vs Outdoor Time
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Book Reccs!
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards
Changing Minds by Naomi Fisher and Jay Griffiths, Kith
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