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Monthly Archive June, 2018

Education, Unschooling, and Losing Our Sense of Empathy with the World

June 11, 2018

Layla returns to A Worldview Apart podcast and talks with Eric Garza about what attracted her to unschooling when her daughter was born, what unschooling means and how it worked for her, and how modern schooling diminishes people’s capacity for empathy, among other things. To learn more about education and child-rearing cultures read Wild Children — Domesticated Dreams: […]

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Questioning Social Narratives – interview

Layla discusses the thesis of her book Children’s Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness (Routledge 2015, 2018) with Eric Garza on A Worldview Apart podcast, in which she critiques the foundational social narratives that support a human-centered view of the natural world and that compel people to perpetuate and acquiesce to oppression. Or, find […]

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