Will Richardson on Why the Status Quo in Education Fails Today’s Learners

PODCAST Season 5 EPISODE 2Will RichardsonFounderFuture Serious School Quote of the Podcast: "The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world, full stop." ~Dougald HineIntroduction of Guest BIO – Will is a lifelong educator who, after 22 years in the classroom, has worked with educators in over 25 countries to push their thinking about the purpose and practice of schooling in a time of deepening challenges and emerging opportunities for change. He is a parent, an author of six books, and the founder of Future Serious Schools. His recent manifesto "Confronting Education in a Time of Complexity, Chaos, and Collapse" is a provocation for a new "why" of schooling and the foundation for a seven-week workshop of the same title which is now entering its third cohort.InterviewAgents of Change: Leaders/Innovators.30,000 Ft. View – Why so we, as a society invest in education?What drew you to education?Tell us about Future Serious SchoolsShare the essence of your ManifestoShare what people will gain from participating in your next cohortWhat are the biggest challenges to you?What would you like decision makers to know?”Podcast/ website/ book shoutouts Website: https://futureserious.school/Manifesto: https://futureserious.school/manifestoedu/Books: Hospicing Modernity, Education in a Time Between Worlds, At Work in the Ruins, Pedagogies of Collapse. Podcasts: The Great Turning, The Great Simplification, Future Learning Design. Support the showEducation Perspectives is edited by Shashank P athttps://www.fiverr.com/saiinovation?source=inboxIntro and Outro by Dynamix Productions