Build a Positive Rebellion
John W. Moravec examines power, trust, and the freedom to learn in twenty-five essays, with working notebooks for creating new education futures.
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Education Futures is the research and advisory practice of Dr. John W. Moravec. We work with schools, universities, governments, and other organizations on questions about learning, technology, and educational change. Our work includes research, strategic planning, workshops, and curriculum design.
Selected publications, projects, and tools
01Manifesto 25Twenty-five principles challenging education’s reliance on compliance, standardization, and entrenched power, and calling for learners and educators to help shape its direction.02Build a Positive RebellionTwenty-five essays expanding on Manifesto 25, examining how fear, control, and inherited assumptions shape education—and what learning could become through trust, curiosity, and agency.03Global Education Futures Readiness IndexAn index comparing education systems’ readiness for technological and social change.04KnowMappedA tool for organizing ideas and exploring connections between them.
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The politics of human learning
An analytical account of how institutional power shapes human capability, how cognitive automation may disrupt the reproduction of expertise, and why learning conditions require enforceable authority.
Let children be children.
A personal reflection on Peter Gray's Restoring Childhood, the freedom to learn, and why children's independent experiences deserve greater attention from educational researchers.
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Every project has its own history, people, and challenges. We begin by understanding the question and the setting, then agree on the research, workshops, or advisory work the project requires.
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