SDG 4: Education for life with Floris Koot
13-07-2020
I was invited for an interview to the Change Makers podcast that supports the Sustainable Development Goals. Here's a link to the podcast.
Educational Innovation
Floris has contributed to several publications on innovative education. He co-founded 3 schools, of which Knowmads in Amsterdam is best known. He believes education must empower students towards purposeful participation. Help them explore their gifts, even if these don't fit the standard norms. Or as Floris says in his TEDx talk: "Measurability in education is a war crime." Messy play is a deeply undervalued learning tool.
Here are examples of his work.
A New Educational Model
11-04-2018
We need an integrated approach to education and personal development. Students need to be trained as a whole being, from body awareness to insight, how their work fits into the larger scheme of things. Companies would benefit much from people trained in such a way.
This is a short blog about why education should prepare us for what the world needs, and not prepare us for a corporate job. And how to do that.