This is an invitation to join a group of learners and communities who are reclaiming diverse knowledges, relationships and imaginations to design new approaches to Higher Education. The Ecoversities Alliance is committed to radically re-imagining higher education to cultivate human and ecological flourishing. #Ecoversities seek to transform the unsustainable and unjust economic, political and social systems/mindsets that dominate the planet...
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Education in Transformation (EDiT) is a film platform that shares stories and ideas from the Self-Directed Education (SDE) movement. It features the many flavours of SDE environments: Unschooling and Worldschooling families, Democratic Schools, Agile Learning Centers, Sudbury Schools, Free Schools, and Liberated Learning Centers... just to name a few. What they all have in common is a belief that learning is a natural process and that people flourish when THEY get to determine how their education goes.
Who Are We?
We are Pia Janzen and Sierra Allen, passionate learning facilitators and filmmakers. We have travelled extensively, visiting, documenting and learning from radical learning communities around the world. EDiT is our way of sharing the transformative stories we've witnessed. We believe that the thrivability of life on this planet depends on the human ability to return learning to life and life to learning.
Our Filmmaker Friends
These filmmakers are transformational storytellers that inspire us. They help us offer a rich selection of videos that support our mission to share a diversity of voices and perspectives from the Self-Directed Education movement.
Florie Berrehar
Florie is a French filmmaker who's been dedicating the past few years to a documentary film about Self-Directed Education. It's called Pursuing my Dreams and it tells the stories of 4 alumni of 4 different free schools around the world. It will be released at the beginning of 2020.
Jeremy Stuart
Jeremy’s involvement in the television and film industry has spanned over 30 years. He is the director of two feature-length documentaries about homeschooling and unschooling, Class Dismissed (2005) and Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019).
Latest Videos
“We believe that kids are natural learners, whereas the paradigm of the mainstream is that kids are naturally lazy and need to be forced to learn. This is night and day.” – Jerry Mintz The AERO Conference is an annual event hosted by the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) to bring together innovators in alternative education from around the world to grow the movement and explore what it means to put learners at...
“And that’s really important to mention I think: That not all of us have that one passion, that not all of us will follow a straight path throughout life and have one vocation.” Florie Berrehar is a film maker, soon launching her first feature length documentary “Pursuing my Dreams”, which portraits 4 grown self-directed learners from 4 different countries. In our Couch Session in Barcelona she talked with Pia about...
“Letting go of control and trusting children is difficult when you don’t trust yourself… and no one trusted in you.” – Rebecka Koritz Originally from Sweden, Becka has worked for the past 15 years as an educator creating alternatives to conventional schools in Mexico. She is a passionate advocate for Self-Directed Education and Peaceful Parenting. She is an ex-student in the Montessori system, co-founder of two Waldorf...