Community and Learning KWMR radio program

In the fall of 2005, Ruth Lopez and I put together three radio programs on Community and Learning. The topics are still relevant.

Links to the first of these three programs (History of Schools with Ron Miller) are right here now, in two parts:

Part 1.1

Part 1.2

I will be putting up the second program in the next couple of days.

Thanks to www.kwmr.org, a fantastically rich and vibrant community learning source in West Marin. And thanks to Lyons Filmer, Ruth Lopez, and Ron Miller for this first program.

Below is an outline of the three-part programs:

WHERE DOES LEARNING TAKE PLACE?

Conversations about Learning and Community

Three consecutive Mondays at 5:30 pm on KWMR

Monday, August 29, 5:30 pm

A conversation with Ron Miller, historian, educator, and author of What Are Schools For? and Creating Learning Communities. We look at the history of schooling and how the purpose of schooling has changed over time. What are some of the cultural assumptions about education in America?

Monday, September 5, 5:30 pm

A conversation with Matt Hern, founder of an alternative learning center for teens in Vancouver, author of Deschooling Our Lives and Field Day: Getting Society Out of School. We consider educational opportunities as comprehensible only within local social and cultural fabrics and discuss how to design them to meet local needs. We examine assumptions about the ways that children learn, as we address underlying attitudes about authority and freedom.

Monday, September 12, 5:30 pm

West Marin residents discuss how to build community, family, and individual self-reliance through Community Based Learning. What is Community Based Learning and how can it engage learners, improve academics, and strengthen community? What can it look like here?