\swarm it^ is the first intentional* implementation of an experimental new** "operating system" for democratized, decolonized and dehegemonized education, where we turn many of the "fundamental" practices and underlying assumptions of education up-side-down:
- From Domination to Liberation (including eliminating the binary of Educator/Student and Adult/Child)
- From Scarcity to Abundance
- From Coercion to Consent
- From Exclusivity to Inclusiveness
- From Learning from to Learning with
- From Fear to Curiosity
- From Competition to Collaboration
- From Profitability to Dignity
- From Credentials to Trust
- From Enclosure to Commons
- From Individualism to Community
* It is our belief that there are communities that operate on some or even most of the aspects of this operating system, and they evolved to be that way because this operating system works. But can enough people come together to make it work intentionally? And to make it work well enough to replace the hegemonic model of education that deprecates these communities as "informal learning"? (The hegemonic nature of education must deprecate informal learning to make the claim that only formal education is valuable)
** Probably none of these aspects are really new, but we believe the packaging as a distinct operating system or paradigm is new.