In this episode Monique Sayers speaks with Jaki Rigg from Dream School about how to create your own homeschooling hubs and communities. As homeschooling parent of two, educator and creator of the Dream School, Jaki discusses a range of aspects around pedagogy, values, community and play. It is not schooling, but rather about learning from life and play that form a new paradigm of education.
Jaki Rigg has rarely been apart from the education scene. Completing a degree in Education and a post- graduate diploma in International Development (including a year-long foray into war-torn Somalia), her professional career has been almost entirely focused on education, spanning continents, states and systems, both private and public.
Despite all this exposure, it took listening to Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 TED talk entitled, “How Schools Kill Creativity”, to bring a shocking realization of the inadequacies and indeed, destructive methodologies of the current mode of learning prevalent all around the world. For the sake of saving and nurturing the creative capacity of her young children, Jaki then began a journey of discovery into how we best learn, how this could translate into a community setting, and how this model could work and function in every context on earth. What has sprung from this research and investigation, was an experiment in education called Dream School. After seven years of molding and refining the Dream School model, Jaki has nailed the elements of learning that cause, not just children, but whole families and communities, to thrive.
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