Alternative Education Resource Organization

Social Issues & Education

What Does a Rabbit Have To Do With Social Justice?: Democratic Education and Social Justice for Preschoolers
Elizabeth Baker & Michele Beach
Democratic Education and Social Justice are big ideas, but are just as important, if not more important, for the smallest people in our lives. Join us as we discuss ways that these ideas can be incorporated into a school for young children and help us as we generate new ways to implement theory into practice.

Where Do We Go From Here? Strategies for a self-organizing revolution
Ron Miller
How might we more effectively advance the idea of learning alternatives for everyone? How can we better reach the education profession, teacher training programs, policymakers, media, and public at large? Let’s get together and talk about the possibilities.

Transforming School Culture
Khotso Khabele
The intentions of this workshop are to make a compelling case for an increased focus on school culture and other contextual aspects and to give participants practical tools to positively affect school culture.

Spirituality and Faith Development of Infants & Young Children
Tim Graves
Young children are spiritual beings just as adults are spiritual beings. This workshop will look at the available research about children’s spiritual journeys and its relationship to faith and values. Discussion will focus on the meaning of the research for supporting children into adulthood.

An Indigenous Perspective on Gender Orientations
Don “Four Arrows” Jacobs
To help combat the ignorance and hate that exists in the world regarding alternative gender orientations, this application of Indigenous wisdom is shared with all. Focusing on Howard Gardner’s principles for changing minds, and referring to the traditional ways of knowing of all our ancestors whose wisdom is based on observation and reflection on natural systems, this workshop will help assure your “alternative” education does not side-step this important topic and its relevance to many other social and ecological justice issues.

An Authentic Curriculum for Social and Ecological Justice, all grade levels
Don “Four Arrows” Jacobs
With social justice language having been removed from teacher accreditation and in light of the continuing controversies in education, it is past time to better understand how to truly walk the talk as relates to offering “alternative” education that can make the world a better place.

What You Don’t Teach is Killing Our Children: The Truth about Environmental Education
Don “Four Arrows” Jacobs
We think the little bit of mainstream education has informed us about sustainability issues in our world, but it is unlikely. As a result, education, both mainstream and alternative, continues to create environmental illiteracy. Or, even when it exists, our consciousness is so utterly programmed by a counter-environmental ethic, our curriculum is generally inadequate to make the changes needed for human survival.

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