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“With American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the global economy.”

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MER I TOCRACY

A N H I S T O R I C A L , N E O L I B E R A L F R A M E W O R K L E D U S H E R E & I T I S C R U M B L I N G

• Schools exist for creating workers (not leaders)

• The super wealthy continue to control the discourse of schooling

• Teachers are ineffective, irrelevant, and hyper-intensified

• Call it what it is… hegemonically mystified social control and confused by altruism

E N D I N G T H I S PA R A D I G M

• No longer aimed at creating workers, supply-side economics with endless consumption and waste…we simply cannot afford to do this

• No longer driven by fear-based rhetoric, either.

• Accountability

• GDP

• Global competition

S H I F T I N G T O A N E W PA R A D I G M

• “Love and Rage” become our primary actions

• Driven by responsibility-oriented thinking

• Sustainability

• Diversity & Community-strengthening

• Interconnection

• Holism & Balance

• Wellness

• Peace & Conflict Mediation

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C R E AT I V E , I N T E R C O N N E C T E D “ S O L U T I O N A R I E S ”

S U S TA I N A B L E FA R M S C H O O L

Sustainable Farm EconomicsGeometry of the Natural WorldActivism and WritingTrickster Myths and Other-World FantasiesNorse MythologyGreek MythologyPermacultureHerbologyScience, Nature, and SustainabilityLifefoods Food Prep

S U S TA I N A B L E FA R M S C H O O L

Holistic NutritionEarly Connecticut and American HistoryCivicsPermacultureCritical Thinking and Moral ReasoningSocial Justice and Contemporary OppressionWalking in JoyWatercolor PaintingArt in Time

S U S TA I N A B L E FA R M S C H O O L

After school program in downtown New Britain, CT !Taught urban gardening, food security issues, sustainably grown food, organic food, and genetically modified foods.

S U S TA I N A B L E FA R M S C H O O LTeacher preparation at CCSU: It is the goal of SFS to provide a space to help public school teachers to explore pedagogies of peace and sustainability. Several pre-service teachers have designed and implemented their own courses at SFS in alignment with the framework of SFS.

S U S TA I N A B L E FA R M S C H O O LTeacher preparation at CCSU: Selected CCSU students are able to develop deep relationships with SFS students and get to know them in more holistic contexts of learning.

A M O D E L F O R C H A N G E

• University faculty - community visionary - organic farmer triad

• University faculty teaching courses at SFS

• Field experience that is deeply rooted in both community and issues of diversity and sustainability (as opposed to perpetuation of a neoliberal education)

• Potential for changing education at the levels of teacher education and PK-12 as these teachers enter the field licensed and certified

• Potential for change at the community level by advocating and showing how to take local control and operationalize community-based education

R E F E R E N C E S

• Real Hourly Wages and Hours Worked: Still off Their Interim Highs http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Employment-Wages-and-Hours.php

• Love, K. A. (2012). 'Love and rage' in the classroom: Planting the seeds of community empowerment. Educational Studies, 48(1), 52-75.

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• Love, K. (2012). Authenticity and cooperation as pathways to school success. In D. Mulcahy (Ed.), Transforming schools: Alternative perspectives on school reform (pp. 121-134). New York, NY: Information Age.

• Love, K. A., Gill, K., King, A., & Love, K. L. (2013). A framework of Waldorf philosophy and EcoJustice pedagogy at the Sustainable Farm School. In M. Mueller & D. Tippens (Eds.), EcoJustice, citizen science, and youth activism: Situated tensions for science education. New York, NY: Springer.

• Photography: Kimberly Gill & Kurt Love