Early Futures
Child Psychology + Philosophy
Focus: Within and behind the core of studies with children lies psychology. Our present is defined by the images and the narratives we tell ourselves: psychology is one way to help identify these narrative trends and cultural resonances. Work that touches on the heart of psychological investigation with children, and adults alike, is something we investigate, as it is integral to how we understand, and reinvent, childhood. What are the deeper mythologies of childhood? What are the psychological (and mythological) issues both in children and in our perceptions of childhood?
Pirates role in Education
R. Buckminster Fuller’s ideas have fully integrated themselves into much of the futurist and architectural arena, but his little known works on education are just as relevant. In Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth he uses pirate history to explain how specialization in education is a form of discreet, global slavery.
pages 22-31 (to view the entire [...]
Radical Children’s Museum
The Zoom Kindermuseum in Vienna, Austria blows most children’s museums away. Based more on a contemporary art museum or science laboratory then a children’s museum, it focuses on experimental ways to give children experiences with the world. Kindermuseum allows for curatorial ideas, and can choose to bring pieces in from other institutions/people/corporations or just focus [...]
Strange Preschool Advertising
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This is an advertisement on a waffle. To be precise, this is a Barbie’s head printed onto a child’s instant waffle. Yes, to be eaten. It is hard to determine if this is significantly empowering to the child (being able to devour the Barbie and maintain power), or completely subversive and [...]
10 Education Alternatives Books
These are 10 past influential books regarding education alternatives & theory (no order) :
School is Dead (read free .pdf)
By: Everett Reimer / Published 1972
“School has become the universal church of a technological society, incorporating and transmitting its ideology, shaping men’s minds to accept this ideology, and conferring social status in proportion to its acceptance.”
Deschooling Society [...]