In the past 3 seasons over 2 years, I’ve interviewed almost 100 people on all 6 inhabitable continents to ask about their education journeys—what worked, what didn’t, and how we need to adapt going forward.
In season 4, I’ll be synthesizing everything I heard.
In this episode, we hear from Sun (070 S3E7), Rosie (061 S225), Joyce (027 S1 E26), Maryn (030 S1 E29), Taylor (079 S3E16), Adrienne (085 S3 E22), Justin (019 S1 E18), Phyllis (065 S3E2), Leah (017 S1 E16),
(064 S3E1), Stella (051 S215), (039 S203), Jae (037 S2E1), Adrienne (071 S3E8), and Bernd (078 S3E15) about how our mass education systems—and also cultural and familial systems—actively stifle the agency and intrinsic motivation of our children, and what we can do to shift the control, necessary for authentic lifelong success and human flourishing, back to the learner.—
If this is your first time tuning in, homeroom is a research project using the human-centered design process (disguised as a podcast) to redesign our education systems for collaboration and connection over competition and division.
In season one, we defined our problem: our mass education systems prioritize economic profit over human flourishing. In season two, we translated the problem into a redesign challenge: how might we redesign education systems to prioritize collaboration over competition? In season three, we explored that question in more depth, and in this season, I’ll be synthesizing everything our amazing guests have said over the past 2 years.
In the following season, we’ll start ideating. If you, or someone you know would like to be a part of this ideation process by being a guest on Season 5, please subscribe to this Substack, and join the conversation by sharing your thoughts and experiences in the discussion section.
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