Raw Foundation

Learning a new way of seeing the world…

In the main, our formal education systems are not doing enough to support sustainable development. Co-opted by the language, values and practice of a competitive-at-all-costs market place, they remain ill-equipped to respond to the challenge, and are commonly rigid, top-down structures that are under-resourced, over-regulated and over-inspected. In order to sustain life, our sense of our place in the world, our sense of ourselves as human beings and our sense of responsibility for our actions need to be developed. The essential critical skills of ecological literacy and systems thinking, in terms of relationships, connectedness and context and space for reflection can then develop an inner pro-environmental consciousness.