School Circles Q&A with directors (Marianne Osorio and Charlie Shread)

This presentation’s recording is under review. Presentation slides can be found here. To find out more about the presenter’s work please visit:

 Wondering School: www.wonderingschool.org

School Circles: www.schoolcirclesfilm.com

Description

This will be a Q&A session with the School Circles film directors Marianne Osorio and Charlie Shread.

School Circles is an independent documentary that explores the practice of democratic schools in the Netherlands. The film shows students, teachers and staff members coming together to dialogue, discuss proposals, mediate conflicts and make decisions about their school life.
These schools not only challenge the mainstream education, but also democracy as we know it. They put into practice Sociocracy, a method for collective organisation based on a systems perspective, in which the decisions are made by integrating all the voices through consent.
School Circles connects the theory of sociocracy to its practice within schools, taking us to new possibilities of organising ourselves and our communities.

Presenter Bio

Marianne Osorio is an educator, researcher and facilitator of democratic practices in learning communities. Former science teacher in a state school in Brazil and Master of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment from the University College of London (UCL), her focus of research has been the praxis of a liberating education, according to Paulo Freire’s ideas.

Charlie Shread is an independent filmmaker and sociocracy facilitator from the UK with experience facilitating group workshops and leading activities with children and adults. His work has focused on democratic education as well as craftspeople and small organisations dedicated to positive social and ecological impact.

Together we created Wondering School, an independent research project that investigates practices of a humanizing education. We have visited more than 40 schools and education projects around the world and have facilitated workshops along the way. We have participated in many Q&As with universities and schools about the School Circles film and have facilitated Sociocracy workshops in India, Austria, Germany, Portugal and Online. We have trained in sociocracy with John Buck and Edwin John and we currently offer training to schools/educators wishing to implement sociocracy in their own contexts.

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