Zachary Stein’s Education in a Time Between Worlds is an impressive feat of scholarship, activism, and education.
It contains six essays, each of which can be read in one sitting. Stein’s stated goal is to “transform readers” with his book, which he describes as “a psychoactive agent or learning catalyst.”
The book’s guiding question is, “What should education look like in the twenty-first century?”
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Our world is currently undergoing major transformations, from climate change and politics to agriculture and economics. The world we have known is disappearing and a new world is being born. The subjects taught in schools and universities today are becoming irrelevant at faster and faster rates. Not only are we facing complex challenges of unprecedented size and scope, we’re also facing a learning and capacity deficit that threatens the future of civilization.
Education in a Time Between Worlds seeks to reframe this historical moment as an opportunity to create a global society of educational abundance. Educational systems must be transformed beyond recognition if humanity is to survive the planetary crises currently underway. Human development and learning must be understood as the Earth’s most valuable resources, with human potential serving as the open frontier into which energy and hope can begin to flow.