We explore the meaning here for all students, where we might invite them into learning process that honors their culture. By honoring their stories, their culture, we are honoring them.
We recognize that authentic learning is learning that allows the learner to create a flourishing self – it's self-creating. We are calling this learning Autopoietic Learning.
We sense that this type of learning is what unleashes the intangible potential that we recognize as Creative Genius.
Dr. Love points out that, for this learning to happen, it must happen in a place filled with love, that Aether of Love that we understanding allows beauty to emerge from wholeness, goodness, and delight.
Perhaps, just perhaps, we are glimpsing the outlines of education reimagined.
In a TEDx talk in 2014, Dr. Bettina Love talks about how hip hop, when she brought it into her classroom, helped her students find meaning and purpose in their learning:
YOUTUBE tkZqPMzgvzg Hip hop, grit, and academic success: Bettina Love at TEDxUGA
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