EDiT – Education in Transformation

EDiT (Education in Transformation)

From the EDiT website: 

Education in Transformation (EDiT) is a film platform that shares stories and ideas from the quickly growing Self-Directed Education movement. It features many flavors of Self-Directed Learning environments: Democratic Schools, Agile Learning Centers, Sudbury Schools, Free Schools, Circle Schools, Liberated Learning Centers, Unschoolers and Worldschoolers… just to name a few. What they all have in common is they believe that learning is a natural process and that people flourish when their education is self-directed and not imposed on them by an external power.

Why are they doing this?

The current school system not working. Students, teachers and parents around the world feel stuck in an outdated structure that doesn’t feel right. Many say it wasn’t designed to serve them in the first place. There are lots of ideas for reform and there are many who are doing their best to make changes from within.

Some people aren’t waiting for the school system to change. They’re furthering a completely different paradigm, where autonomy is returned to the learner and to the learning community. 

Who created EDit?

EDiT was created by a team of two women, Pia and Sierra, that have traveled extensively, visiting, documenting, and learning from radical learning communities around the world.

EDIT is their way of sharing the powerful, inspiring work they have witnessed. They’ve noticed that many people have not even heard of the Self-Directed Education movement. Many people have a deep sense that there must be better ways out there, but ultimately feel isolated in a world that discourages stepping away from the mainstream.