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Our Alliance Goal
The Educere Alliance’s goal is to generate healthy environments through care-full participatory learning that embodies an ethic of awareness which is extended to living beings and materials. To this end the Alliance seeks to generate, support and coordinate alternative education projects around the world.
“I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.” — John Dewey
“Derived from the Latin educere (from ex, “out,” plus ducere, “to lead”), education was a matter of leading novices out into the world rather than, as commonly understood today, of instilling knowledge in to their minds. Instead of placing us in a position or affording a perspective, education in this sense is about pulling us away from any standpoint—from any position or perspective we might adopt.” — Tim Ingold
About The Alliance
The Educere Alliance was first conceived through a serendipitous meeting and conversation at the ASA Medical Anthropology conference.
Anthropologists Krysztoff Berski, Julie LaPlante and Elizabeth Rahman began thinking about more dynamic ways of engaging in educational practices beyond the classic conference format.
The Alliance was inaugurated in November 2017 with the support of Dr. Laura Rival, the Oxford Department for International Development, and funding from the Economic and Social Science Research Council Global Challenges Research Fund’s Biosocial Education research impact project.
For the network, education is about the lifelong growth of persons and communities in relationship with the world’s material processes. To educate is to support and to trust fellow learners, to attune to their interests and needs and to lead each other out (educere) to collectively meet life’s challenges.
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Featured Projects
The Educere Alliance works in close collaboration with local community-based alternative education projects across the globe. The fundamental substance of the Alliance are the various initiatives and projects from which it emerges. Our projects are guided by the understanding that education can support wellbeing and environmental sustainability through engaging all our senses and imagination and allowing them to flow unfettered; promoting play and exploration rather than expectation and explanation; embracing heritage, honing care, attention, acceptance, curiosity and appreciation of the world through skilled practice; opening and improvising instead of providing ready-made solutions. Field schools are the experimental laboratories of the Educere Alliance in which learning communities are formed through direct engagement and immersion within the environment, culture and history of a specific region.
Promise Foundation
The Promise Foundation, was established as a charitable trust in India in 1987, with the overall aim of drawing upon multi-disciplinary findings to inform culture-resonant programmes and promote the educational, social and economic development of children and adolescents from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Perform
PERFORM investigates the effects of the use of innovative science education methods based on performing arts in fostering young peoples’ motivations and engagement with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in selected secondary schools in France, Spain and the United Kingdom, breaking the unidirectional model of scientific knowledge transfer.
Formabiap
Formabiap is a bilingual, indigenous teacher training project in the Peruvian Amazon, providing bespoke and localised training for the communities of Loreto state. Established in 1988, the programme pioneers a range of active and indigenous pedagogies to secure the sustainable future of rural populations.
Schooling the World 2010 Full Documentary
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