CACOR Live | John Gilmour | Education for Hope

Join @John Gilmour for a conversation on “Education for Hope”, an emerging global movement that responds directly to what Aurelio Peccei described as the human gap – the gap between the complexity of the world we have created and our current level of consciousness, compassion and collective responsibility.

 

Education for Hope draws on the Ubuntu philosophy of Africa – “the village is the school” – and aligns with the Club of Rome’s long-standing call for human-centred transformation, from The Limits to Growth to The Fifth Element, which identified raised consciousness as the integrating force for change. While there are “limits to growth,” there are no limits to the growth of human consciousness, solidarity and hope.

 

Education for Hope also acknowledges the population growth in Africa, poorer nations of Latin America and Southeast Asia so the transformed education may counteract the outcome of a lack of livelihood skills. It attempts to change the paradigm of lesser educational opportunities for the economically marginalized in these nations where equity and educational justice are not the norm.  Also the oppressed educationally in nations of substantial development where education has not been justly inclusive such as the Hopi an Navaho indigenous tribes in the USA.

 

Introduced  by @Anitra Thorhaug and moderated by Ted Manning, the session will explore how Education for Hope seeks to recognize and activate human assets everywhere, re-imagining education as learning to heal, to connect and to exercise active global citizenship – particularly across the Global South, where the majority of the world’s young people live.

Many are forced to enter an adulthood of unemployment or take on very difficult opportunities to support their families. Themes of global equity of education in systems of the southern hemisphere are integral to the discussion.

 

This is a Club of Rome project.

Biography:

John Gilmour is a South African education innovator whose life’s work repositions education as a pathway to self-liberation, social healing and regenerative development. Active since the final years of apartheid and now dealing with the legacy of mental colonisation, he has led the transformation of young people, their families, communities, society and global spaces.

In 2004, he founded the LEAP Science and Maths Schools, now nine schools nationwide serving learners living on the margins of society and economy. Over the past 22 years, LEAP has shown that high performance in Mathematics and Science is achievable when the conditions for learning are intentionally designed and sustained. More than 3,600 learners have graduated, with a pass rate above 96%, enabling them to pursue STEM-related careers.

John’s contribution goes beyond examination results.

LEAP’s self-liberating pedagogy integrates academic mastery, raised Consciousness, mindset change, personal agency and peer-supported learning. LEAP also regenerates educator capacity, developing more than 260 teachers and at least 3,000 young leaders in the public, private, and civil society sectors.

John integrates Ubuntu’s values framework, asset-based community development and reflective practice into education hubs with schools at the centre of the community/village. Through the LEAP Institute and Education for Hope, linked to the Club of Rome, he is cultivating, scaling and amplifying transformational leadership worldwide.

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