Monday, February 20, 2012

TEDxBuffalo - Stacey Watson - Rebooting Education in Our Urban Core


DROP-IN NATION is based in Buffalo New York and is nearly a decade old.  
It uses Holistic Education Curriculum  designed for Drop-out Recovery.

7,000 students drop-out everyday in the USA.

73% students attending DROP-IN NATION go on to College, job training or employment.

The major informers of DROP-IN NATION are:
Holistic Education:  Our children are people
Circular Reasoning:  Our children are complex
W.E.B. DuBois:  Theory of Double Consiousness
Jean Baudrillard: Theory of Cultural Industrialization
Relevance
Flexibility
Focus on Reading and Thinking
Love - without this, nothing else matters

It's almost 20 minutes long.  Check out 12:30 and Euro-centric and Circular Reasoning.  The idea that they survive and someone loves them is what everything else is based on.  There are even Yoga classes!

 

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