2024 Theses Master's
Foundational Documents for Culture Without Borders Language Collective, LLC, A Sustainable World Language School
Lindsay Szper used her time at OHMA --- and the knowledge, resources, and community this program provided --- to think through and establish a sustainable world language school, Culture Without Borders Language Collective (CWB). This thesis is foundational documents for CWB. It has four parts: a Philosophy of Language [and] Education essay; a business plan; a community-generated language-learning text; and a methodological reflection, constructed as a dialogue between friends, advisors, and other admired thinkers.
This project asks and responds to the following questions: How can we teach and learn languages in ways that are fun, effective, enriching, empowering, worthwhile, sustainable, and rooted in friendly and mutually supportive human relationships? How do we craft a work life for ourselves that is fulfilling, agreeable, sustainable, flexible and human? How do we transform the economy to a more just and equitable system for distributing resources and sustaining life? What is the purpose of school?
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THESIS - Lindsay Szper - Jan 16 2023 - Final Full Draft.pdf
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More About This Work
- Academic Units
- INCITE
- Thesis Advisors
- Quevedo, Sayre
- Degree
- MA, Columbia University
- Published Here
- March 19, 2025
Notes
Language-learning; songs; music; translation; circular economy; solidarity economics; culture of the commons; transformative education; transdisciplinarity; transversality; participatory action research