Education for Well-being Education as if people and the planet mattered

The Design School at Stanford is doing some interesting stuff. You can find it at: http://dschool.stanford.edu/k12/index.php
The K-12 Lab started with a question: Why is it that all students start kindergarten with innate creative confidence, but few of them still have it when they graduate from high school? The lab’s work centers on [...]

“There’s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does”, says Daniel Pink at a recent TED talk, referring to motivation. The same could be said for what schools do, relying heavily on carrots and sticks to produce those oft-undefined things called “learning”, “success” and “achievement”.
The disconcerting thing (and this has been shown over [...]