How unschooling empowers young people: Rights, consent, and autonomy

SARI GONZALEZ & BECKA KORITZ

What does it mean to live in partnership with our young people and why are the principles of unschooling so empowering for them?

Sari González, director of Explora Agile Learning Community and co-founder of Radical Learning, is a passionate advocate for youth liberation and rights, educator, experienced parent coach, and facilitator trainer known for her clear, practical focus and dedication to intentional culture creation within the self-directed education movement. Leaving the corporate world to advocate for youth agency, she has spent the last 20 years humanizing education through initiatives like Summer Search, Farm School NYC, and Cottonwood NYC.  Becka Koritz is a visionary and innovative educator with over 30 years of experience, including 25 years of training teachers. Growing up in the Montessori public school in Sweden, she has since founded two Waldorf initiatives and Explora, an Agile Learning Center in Mexico. As a co-founder of Radical Learning, she supports parents and educators in fostering young people’s learning, autonomy and agency. Becka is a leading voice in the self-directed education movement in Latin America, and a dedicated youth rights advocate. She is Sweden’s main advocate against mandatory schooling, defending kids’ right to diverse educational alternatives. She authored the Swedish book A School from Scratch (2016). Click the link to their website to get their free e-book, Raising Autonomous Kids.

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