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The Other-Wise Project: A Community Conversation

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This is a live recording of a community conversation held at The GAP at the begining of October 2022.


For this event we invited members of our communities, and participants on the programme, to gather together and explore the themes that emerged from The Other-Wise Project. We explore what it meant for young people to take control of their curriculum and create a curriculum for living, we then explore the idea of exclusion, and why exclusion is built in to the structure of institutional learning, and finally we explore the idea that if all schools had "What does a better world look like and how do we build it?” at its centre, what sort of learning might we structure?


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As part of The GAP's 2022 programme, The Other-Wise Project - a series of creative and participatory explorations with young people that explores, challenges and rethinks the old ideas that shape contemporary education. Funded by Arts Council England.


Recored and produced by Sunny Singh.

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