by Tim Logan
We are stuck in an old paradigm, with institutional structures that were built for a world that no longer exists. Within education, passionate entrepreneurs & committed citizens are no longer waiting for these broken formal institutions to be reformed. All over the world, they're designing & building their own local responses with relationships at their core. These are the education ecosystems that our young people need and out of which new institutions will emerge. This podcast is an inquiry into these fundamental changes and an invitation to join the movement to help drive positive change.
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April 19, 2025
<p>Are we educating young people as consumers? Have educational institutions become service providers in the consumer economy of educational products? Or are we educating young people as citizens - of their local communities, nations and the planet? If so what does that mean for how we engage them in the processes of living and working together, making meaningful contributions and learning important things as they go. I'm not sure that that looks much like what we're currently doing in most schools around the world. </p><p>Jon Alexander is on a mission to help a new story to emerge about how people all over the world are getting involved in 'citizening' - that is, thinking of citizen as a verb and a local participatory responsibility, rather than citizen as a noun that you claim rights to.</p><p>Jon began his career with success in advertising, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year before making a dramatic change. Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring consumerism and its alternatives from every angle. In 2014, he co-founded the New Citizenship Project, a strategy and innovation consultancy that aims to shift the dominant story of the individual in society from Consumer to Citizen. NCP’s client list includes The Guardian, the European Central Bank, and the European Journalism Centre. They have partnered with the BBC, Amnesty International, National Trust, the British Film Institute, Tate galleries, the National Union of Students, YouGov, the Centre for Public Impact, the Food Standards Agency and the Food Ethics Council. </p><p>Jon is author of Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us - a book that seeks to reframe the moment in time we're living in as one of huge civic opportunity, not just crisis and collapse, and in doing so opens up a world of possibility for organisations and leaders across sectors and across the world.</p><p><strong>Links to Jon's work:</strong></p><ul><li>Citizens (Book): https://www.jonalexander.net/</li><li>How to Citizen, with Baratunde Thurston: https://stories.howtocitizen.com/form</li><li>New Citizenship Project: https://www.newcitizenproject.com/</li><li>Jon's Four Thought lecture, BBC Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04md5b0</li><li>Jon's NCP article on Three Post Covid Futures: https://medium.com/new-citizenship-project/subject-consumer-or-citizen-three-post-covid-futures-8c3cc469a984</li><li>Jon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-alexander-11b66345/</li><li>Baratunde on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/baratunde/</li></ul>
April 13, 2025
<p>Is it possible to unlearn the conditioning of our minds, that many of us who have had traditional educations have experienced, such that we can think differently about what an education could be? This week's guest has seen both sides of this experience, and is weaving incredible communities and new institutions all over India and the world!</p><p>Manish Jain is deeply committed to regenerating our diverse local knowledge systems and cultural imaginations and is one of the strong planetary voices for de-schooling our lives. He has served for the past 20 years as coordinator and co-founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India, and is co-founder of the Swaraj University, Creativity Adda, Learning Societies Unconference, Walkouts-Walkon network, Udaipur as a Learning City, and Families Learning Together network in India. He recently helped launch the global Ecoversities Network and the global Giftival Network. He is a featured speaker / advisory member of the Economics of Happiness network for localization. He has edited several books on vimukt shiksha (liberating learning) on themes such as learning societies, unlearning, gift culture, community media, and tools for deep dialogue. Prior to this, Manish worked as one of the principal team members of the UNESCO Learning Without Frontiers global initiative. He has also been a consultant to UNICEF, World Bank, and USAID in Africa, South Asia, and the former Soviet Union. Manish also worked as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley. He has been trying to unlearn his master’s degree in education from Harvard University and his BA in economics, international development, and political philosophy from Brown University. He and his wife Vidhi have been unschooling themselves with their 15-year-old daughter, Kanku, in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Manish is passionate about urban organic farming, filmmaking, simulation gaming, bicycling, group facilitation, clowning, intercultural dialogue, and slow food cooking.</p><p>Links to Manish's communities of practice:</p><p><a href="https://www.shikshantar.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.shikshantar.org</a><br><a href="https://www.ecoversities.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.ecoversities.org</a><br><a href="https://www.swarajuniversity.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.swarajuniversity.org</a><br><a href="https://www.udaipurlearningcity.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.udaipurlearningcity.org</a><br>https://complexity.university/ <br><a href="https://www.jailuniversity.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.jailuniversity.org</a><br><a href="https://www.farmversities.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.farmversities.org</a><br><a href="https://www.creativityadda.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.creativityadda.org</a><br><a href="https://www.creativityconsortium.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.creativityconsortium.org</a></p>
April 5, 2025
<p>As I often say we radically underestimate young people and what they are capable of. They are asking to be involved in the critical conversations about systems change. And not only that they are also building their own capabilities for and with each other about how to engage with it's systemic issues. So it's a huge pleasure this week to be speaking with Nolita Mvunelo, Matías Lara and Vanessa Terschluse who have taken it upon themselves as the 50percent to gather a collection of insights to enhance young people's understanding of systems and how they move and change. They have published the Young Person's Guide to Systems Change.</p><p>Nolita Mvunelo is Co-Director of The 50 Percent and Club of Rome Youth Program Manager: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolita-thina-mvunelo/</p><p>Matías Lara is Director of The 50 Percent: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milara14/</p><p>Vanessa Terschluse is Chief Editor of The 50 Percent: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-terschluse-915a5b171/</p><p><strong>Other links:</strong></p><p>https://the50percent.org/</p><p>The Young Person's Guide to Systems Change: https://the50percent.org/young-persons-guide/</p><p>https://youth-talks.org/</p><p>https://www.clubofrome.org/</p>
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