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Entangled: Using education to teach interconnectedness in a fragmented world

Winter 2021 cover of The 快播视频 Magazine featuring Faculty of Education Assistant PRofessor Cristina Delgado Vintimilla standing outside in front of some trees.
Cover of the winter 2021 issue of The 快播视频 Magazine featuring Faculty of Education Assistant Professor Cristina Delgado Vintimilla

Cristina Delgado Vintimilla is an assistant professor in early childhood education at 快播视频. But you could just as easily call her a teaching radical. As the University鈥檚 first pedagogista 鈥 an Italian word denoting an educational leader with a pronounced pedagogical vision 鈥 Vintimilla dismantles the human-centric approach to education that has served as the golden standard since the 19th century, if not longer. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the kind of neoliberal, hyper-individualized education you might find in an assembly line,鈥 she says in accented English, making piquant her disdain, 鈥渢aking information in, regurgitating it out. A system designed only to supply the workforce of tomorrow. We need to continue to unsettle this idea.鈥 And Vintimilla is.

Instead of using education as a tool for socialization, she joins forces with other education theorists to advance a pedagogy that promotes a sense of interdependence with 鈥渕ore than human worlds.鈥 The goal is to focus education less on personal achievement and more on developing a greater sense of awareness of the complexity and interconnectedness of humans living on the planet.

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