Revolutionary Learning

Revolutionary Learning supports the need to transform stale, traditional and often antiquated models of education and learning into a dynamic, forward thinking and fluid model that engages learners and organizations in greater levels of understanding and ethical action. Revolutionary Learning supports social justice and advocates that all learners... have access to transformative learning tools, technologies, and systems. The idea of Revolutionary Learning goes back at least to Socrates and his dialectical engagement of learners through the continual questioning of received and accepted knowledge. Socrates articulated a revolutionary method that burst apart accumulated prejudices and unsubstantiated opinions in a quest of enduring truths. What distinguishes Revolutionary Learning will be an emphasis in games for learning, game-based learning, and design thinking as the underlying paradigm for educational transformation and improvement. Games are preeminent in their ability to elicit learning by doing- the praxis of revolution. However, just as insight without action ends in stagnation, so too does action without insight. Action and insight must work together- reflection and feedback-propel the revolutionary learning paradigm forward. Ultimately, significant transformative learning must operate on both micro and macro levels. An incredible curriculum, innovative teachers, and dynamic leaders are all important, but if the learner leaves the formal learning environment for a home environment with self-destructive peers, absent parenting or leadership, poverty, and pervasive inequity then the aspirations instilled in more formal learning can quickly dissipate outside conducive learning systems. Our promotes and engages progressive learning, social justice, diverse perspectives, healthy life-affirmative behaviors, ethical decision making all most certainly in the spit of games or what Nietzsche so brilliantly called, joyful wisdom. As founder of Revolutionary Learning, I want to pay homage to three amazing teachers ...Read More