Transition Culture
Karen MacLean on Den Grøenne Friskole, where imagination flourishes
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:22:48
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Synopsis
In their book ‘Imagination First’, Eric Liu & Scott Noppe-Brandon wrote “it is pretty clear what makes young humans allergic to imagination: school”. In my search for schools or approaches to education that truly place the imagination at their heart, and which avoid this kind of allergy, I was fascinated to hear about Den Grøenne Friskole (‘The Green Free School’) in Copenhagen. They are a school that values imagination, Transition and sustainability above everything else, and have developed something very powerful. To find out more I spoke to Danish American Karen MacLean, one of the people who started the school. She had originally trained to be a university teacher, but never actually taught, ending up initially working as a translator, but then more recently as one of the people running the school.