Season 2: Episode 9 - Liberating Learning from Schooling with Santiago Rincón-Gallardo

What this episode covers

What if we conceived of educational change as a social movement, shifting from the grammar of schooling to the language of learning? And what if learning was seen as the practice of freedom, focused on discovering our capacity to learn? On this episode, we speak with Dr Santiago Rincón-Gallardo, a researcher, advisor and education consultant. He is the Chief Research Officer at Michael Fullan Enterprises. He is involved in efforts to transform teaching and learning across educational systems in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Australia. As an educator and organiser, Santiago worked for over a decade to promote grassroots educational change initiatives in Mexican public schools serving historically marginalised communities. Santiago's academic work explores how effective pedagogies for deep learning can spread at scale. His latest book is Liberating Learning: Educational Change as Social Movement. We discuss how education systems have historically been about control. As the director of a small NGO, he catalysed a movement to turn conventional classrooms into tutorial networks, which reached 9,000 schools across Mexico. Santiago holds a Master of Education in International Education Policy and Doctorate in Education on Education Policy, Leadership and Instructional Practice, both from Harvard University. You can connect with Dr Rincon-Gallardo via @SRinconGallardo on Twitter, and through his website: www.LiberatingLearning.com