School Revolt - The Craft of 'Doing' Anarchism (with Garry Nicholson)

Using free choice and imaginative teaching can be rightly claimed as part of the teaching armoury of many educators who would never consider themselves to be anarchists. Equally, radical education is so often used as a term for any teaching that seems new or different. I have recently been lucky enough to spend time in conversation with a Finnish anarchist educator who influenced my thinking on what real anarchist education should aspire to being, which is to equip learners to live their lives completely independently from society in sustainable ways. It is only once we have the tools to live on our own terms that we can position ourselves where we choose in society, if at all. Free from societal dependencies anarchist education then becomes more about what we teach than how. Education that teaches us how to live without money rather than climbing a meritocratic ladder to join the super rich. Within this model of anarchist education learners would learn the skills to build, sow, weave