Episode 13:

In this episode of The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast, we discuss the documentary "Schooling the World" by Carol Black. This incredibly powerful movie interviews the villagers of Hemis Shukpa-Chen and other Ladakhi people, as well as Manish Jain, Vandana Shiva, Wade Davis and Helena Norberg-Hodge about the role of schooling in colonisation and the implementation of a centralised economy. As Helena Norberg-Hodge says, "99 percent of all the activities under the label of education come under a very specific agenda that grew out of the colonial expansion across the world by Europeans - and now the agenda is the same across the world, to pull people into dependence on a modern, centralised economy and to pull them away from their own independence, their own culture and self-respect." In the podcast, we share the feelings we felt when we first watched the movie and the effect it had on our own natural learning journeys. We discuss the ideas raised, such as how poverty is created, the role of indoctrination, how people are pulled out of their lineage and culture and the effects of this. We talk about loss of language and the deep sadness and outrage we experienced watching the movie and seeing children being punished for speaking their original languages. We talk about what we learnt about elders being taught to believe that they know nothing, and how reading and writing becomes valued as the only form of language. We found this a really powerful episode to record.

You can find out more about the movie by Carol Black here: http://carolblack.org/schooling-the-world/

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