An Education Revolution | Zineb Mouhyi

Dec 21, 2023

Zineb Mouhyi, co-founder of YouthxYouth and the Weaving Lab, takes a bold stand for a youth-led education revolution. She critiques traditional education systems for stifling creativity while emphasizing how education can address interconnected global crises like climate change. Zineb discusses the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in learning and links youth empowerment to effective educational reform. Her insights advocate for collaborative, intergenerational approaches that foster personal growth and meaningful community change.

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Education Shapes Society's Core

Education is the core human-making function shaping society and its systems.
It perpetuates current systems by conditioning humans to fit specific roles and ways of being.

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Living in a 'Time Between Stories'

We live in a "time between stories" where old progress narratives are breaking down.
This creates an opportunity for radical reimagining and systemic transformation, including in education.

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Gen Z's Vision and Challenges

Many Gen Z are activists seeing instability and possibility in their future.
They emphasize solidarity, self-agency, and recognize the psychological toll of current crises.

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My guest today is Zineb Mouhyi. Zineb is the co-founder of both YouthxYouth & the Weaving Lab. YouthxYouth is a movement to radically reimagine the future of education with the goal of accelerating the process of young people influencing, designing, and transforming their education. The Weaving Lab is a global community of practice with the mission of advancing the field of weaving, understood as the practice of interconnecting ideas, people, projects, organizations, places, and ecologies to support systems change. Zineb is also a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Social Change where she explores the questions “How might we facilitate a planetary transition to a thriving planet? & How could education lead to a planetary transition?”

Zineb and I talk about why education is one of the root causes of the many interrelated global crises we’re facing, also known as the metacrisis, as it is the core human-making function of society. Zineb believes that despite decades of adults working to reform public education, the system, on average, is producing dismal results and it's time for a youth-led education revolution! Her work with young people has confirmed her hunch that THEY need to be the ones leading the change.

We also talk about the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in education and agree that it is of the utmost importance that those in positions of educational leadership work to deepen their understanding of AI and how it is and will impact children moving forward.

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Zineb’s Links & Resources:

YouthxYouth

The Weaving Lab

Books Mentioned:

Education in a Time Between Worlds, Zak Stein

Other Resources:

Education is the Metacrisis, Zak Stein

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