School Revolt - Self-Directed Education and Anarchism: a Q&A with Grown Unschoolers

What is self-directed education, and why should anarchists care about it? We like to define it as education that derives from the self-chosen activities and life experiences of the learner, while remaining embedded in and shaped by the learner's communities. It's an umbrella term for such diverse approaches as unschooling, free schools, Agile Learning Centers and Flying Squads. Self-directed education and anarchism seem to both of us to be deeply compatible philosophies, and we'd like to share the reasons we feel that's the case and answer any questions attendees might have, as both grown unschoolers and anarchists ourselves. About the Presenters: Idzie is a grown unschooler who has been living, thinking, and writing about self-directed education for most of her life. Her writing is deeply informed by her anarchistic politics, her experience of queerness and of chronic illness. She is a sporadic but enthusiastic reader of novels and nonfiction alike, and sees her writing as a constan