“Can we go from f*ck the system, to love the system? In China, the latter is being explored. The problem there, of course, is that it’s a system even less worthy of our love. For a system to be loved, it must merit our love. And a social system—educational systems included—merits our love by being […]

“To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground”. — Stephen Covey Grounding Education in Human Interaction In a very general sense, education is a social undertaking; it is fundamentally about humans that interact in a manner that helps people to grow and to learn, building on the human capacity

“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections—and it matters which ones get made and unmade”. —Donna Haraway Turning the Tide from Disruption to Educational Potential Itwould be a bleak reality if technology offered only challenges and disruptions to education that

“All things share the same breath—the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.” —Chief Seattle Keeping the Gretas in School As the Greta Thunberg movement of school strikes has put on display, the young generation around the world worries about their future in terms of ecological sustainability

“Culture arises and unfolds in and as play”. — Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian 1872–1945 A Time Between Worlds Zak Stein (philosopher of education) has famously noted that our educational system is stuck in “a time between worlds”. It’s a time that has begun to shed the Modern educational frameworks, but no Protopian or Metamodern framework has

Why digital society brings forth cynicism and anxiety—and what we can do about it. [A very French piece of theory: READERS BE WARNED.] Would you say that life has become more or less “civilized” as societies have evolved? Let us consider only the last few decades of cultural shifts to get a handle on this

There are still four tickets left for the advanced course on metamodernism starting April 10. The course is an intense deep-dive reserved for just 12 participants interested in a more intimate experience with Emil Ejner Friis as your teacher. This will be the last time Emil does this course this year. Here’s what he has

In times of war, issues of ethnic and national identity overshadow all considerations of class. We are thereby forgetting a crucial question: Which class relations should we aspire towards? [Note: As the war in Ukraine broke out, I was in the process of writing a series of weekly articles that explore visions of societal development

What can we, as citizens of the world, do to avoid the worst consequences of the war in Ukraine and to make “the best” out of a grim situation? This is the second of two 10-pointers on the invasion of Ukraine. The first one sets the stage in terms of understanding the situation. This one goes on

What is a sober and clear way of understanding the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine as a whole? This is the first of two 10-pointers on the invasion of Ukraine. This one sets the stage in terms of understanding the situation. The second one goes on to what can and should be done by the