Alessandra Pomarico on Free Home University (The Secret Ingredient – 10/09/14)

The Secret Ingredient

Education is too often an automated process of preparing the learner to become a part of the neo-liberal capitalist economy. Paolo Freire calls this a transactional process of education, where learning is “deposited” into students, who are empty receptacles. In Lecce, Italy, a group of artists and cultural workers are gathering together to create an ongoing collaborative platform to educate in a different way. Free Home University’s Alessandra Pomarico talks with us about what happens when we live together while learning, and how we can create collective intentions for shared living, both with each other and with the earth.