We talk with Mark Gordon, founder of the Friends and Relationships Course, a program in New Mexico that provides classes for adults with intellectual disabilities who want to learn how to form intimate and other relationships. He talks about what he’s learned over 15 years of teaching sexuality classes, learning along with his son about the ongoing necessity for interdependence. We also discuss society’s failure to welcome and accommodate people with developmental disabilities.

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Overview

00:00-01:20 Intros

01:21-03:45 Friends and Relationships course

03:46-05:27 Extraordinary and ordinary needs

05:28-10:03 Interdependency rather than dependency or independence

10:04-18:04 Roles and relationships; curriculum development

18:05-19:41 Roles of agencies

19:42-21:57 Financing systems

21:58-23:09 Advocacy and social change

23:10-26:50   Ethical community

26:51-27:30 Outro

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We talk with Mark Gordon, founder of the Friends and Relationships Course, a program in New Mexico that provides classes for adults with intellectual disabilities who want to learn how to form intimate and other relationships. He talks about what he’s learned over 15 years of teaching sexuality classes, learning along with his son about the ongoing necessity for interdependence. We also discuss society’s failure to welcome and accommodate people with developmental disabilities.

We talk with Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. She talks about providing young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to address our pressing challenges in order to transform unsustainable and unjust systems into ones that are humane, healthy, and peaceful.

References

Find more about Zoe and the Institute for Humane Education on humaneeducation.org

Overview

00:00-01:02 Intros

01:03-02:23 What is humane education? What are “solutionaries?’

02:24-09:57 Avoiding false dichotomies; avoiding polarization; looking at who is harmed and who benefits from a problem; finding areas of mutual benefit to overcome harm

09:58-17:18 Creating a classroom environment that encourages solutionary thinking

17:19-22:26 Educating young people to think like solutionaries in whatever field they are interested

22:27-22:38 “What are the issues I care most about?” “What am I good at?” “And what do I love to do?

22:39-25:09 Making the connections to analyze solutions on a solutionary scale

25:10-29:27 MOGO: most good, least harm; applying it to complex systems

29:28-30:30 Outro

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References

Listen to our second conversation with Zoe Weil “Creative problem solving: Developing solutionary thinkers”

We talk with Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. She talks about providing young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to address our pressing challenges in order to transform unsustainable and unjust systems into ones that are humane, healthy, and peaceful.

The post Zoe Weil on humane education: The world becomes what we teach first appeared on Ethical Schools.

We talk with Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. She talks about providing young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to address our pressing challenges in order to transform unsustainable and unjust systems into ones that are humane, healthy, and peaceful.

We talk with MacArthur “genius” award winner Deborah Meier, a founder of the small schools movement, about what makes a good school. She talks about how to build and maintain trust and mutual respect among students, teachers, and families.

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Find more about Deborah on deborahmeier.com

Overview

00:00-02:09 Intros

02:10-03:24 What is an ethical school?

03:25-04:48 Transparency

04:49-06:31 Centering families in secondary school

06:32-09:54 School as an intergenerational community

09:55-12:39 Advisory

12:40-16:11 Advisories and a democratic community

16:12-16:20 Connections between teaching early childhood and high school

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We talk with MacArthur "genius" award winner Deborah Meier, a founder of the small schools movement, about what makes a good school. She talks about how to build and maintain trust and mutual respect among students, teachers, and families.

The post Deborah Meier on Public Education and Democracy: What makes an ethical school first appeared on Ethical Schools.

We talk with Eva Lopez about Act4Change, a Theatre of the Oppressed project in the Bronx. Eva Lopez uses theater techniques to invite children and youth to envision liberation and to empower them to resist oppression. Audiences become spect-actors to examine root causes of bullying, domestic violence and other personal/societal crises.

Overview

00:00-01:42 Intros

01:43-04:42 Act4Change, Theater of the Oppressed; Augusto Boal; ethical decision-making

04:41-09:29 What an Act4Change program & session look like

09:30-13:36 Act4Change impact on spect-actors; actions beyond the performance

13:37-14:03 Middle- and elementary-school students’ involvement

14:04-15:07 Act4Change in a school?

15:08-16:48 Importance of exposure to the arts 

16:49-17:23 Act4Change contact info

17:24-20:00 Outro

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References

BronxTimes “Nonprofit launches community arts COVID-19 relief initiative”

Soundtrack by Podington Bear