Rebecca Winthrop
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127 appearances
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2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 17 Jan
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And then the last thing, which may seem silly to you, but I increasingly keep thinking about, is think about speaking. listening and speaking as the missing piece of literacy alongside reading and writing, we're going to need to show our merit and our credentials more and more through what the British call oracy skills. I think we've lost the art of listening and speaking.
So the first one is Democracy in Education by John Dewey, which is over 100 years old. And we are now seeing through lots of great neuroscience that his observations around the teaching and learning experience and what makes for a good teaching and learning experience were right.
He has some great discussions around the importance of reflection, not just ingesting knowledge, but reflecting on it, making meaning, figuring out how to do things with it. And I love it because we didn't talk about this as much, but the role of schools in our society are more than just your and my kids' education and getting a job, even though that's what we care about most as a parent.
They are about creating a democratic society or not. So that's an oldie but goodie. I love it. John Dewey. The second book is by Gaia Bernstein. It's called Unwired, Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies. She's a law professor at Seton Hall University. I really enjoy this book because it gives a really good overview, particularly around kids.
and young people of the incentives that commercial tech has and what are some strategies for resisting that and getting to a better place. And the last one, it's called Blueprint for Revolution, How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Sergei Popovich, who is...
was the student sort of leader, Serbian student leader that started a movement to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic and now is doing quite a bit of work on nonviolent protest against authoritarianism. And to me, this book is sort of like the updated version of nonviolent activism. He really gets media. He really gets social media. And I just think it's incredibly relevant today.
Thank you.
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