School Revolt - Commons and Libertarian Pedagogies

Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Qyg1pYF6fXP4L6V7E7B5WoBFTp3fIOhf9kQf3UgQHts/edit#slide=id.gca2278d966_0_6 This talk examines and utilizes the experience of Commons-based communities for the benefit of educational commons and anarchist pedagogies. The commons is a triad consisting of a resource, a community, and the management rules that the community forms in order to co-create and co-manage this resource (Bollier, 2014). Commons can be seen as peer to peer horizontal human relational dynamics and as a process of political struggle against enclosures (e.g. statized or corporatized enclosures in education) on the vision of collective self-determination and autonomy. Over the last decades, numerous open-source initiatives and hackers communities have created processes, tools and artifacts in a collective, commons-based way that differ heavily from (and sometimes outperform) their dominant authoritative equivalents. For example, what can we learn from the practical