Imagining our futures: A conversation with Peter Sutoris, Ph.D. | Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.

Imagining our futures: A conversation with Peter Sutoris, Ph.D. | Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.

In this episode, I speak with Peter Sutoris. Peter is a development professional, researcher, writer and educator, who spent a decade working on issues of education, health and social development. Peter is the author of the article, “Anthropocene skills need to be at the centre of curricula,” and the author of two books: Visions of Development, about the history development policy in India, and Educating for the Anthropocene, about the refocusing of education interventions needed in the face of the current environmental crisis.

We discuss:

• Breaking away from the meritocratic narrative to imagine our possible futures,

• How following the blueprint for success may be a threat to the planet as well as ourselves,

• How education is not the same thing as schooling.

Join us for another episode and we look forward to your thoughts.

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Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.

Benjamin Freud, Ph.D. is the co-founder of Coconut Thinking, an advisory that supports schools and learning organizations to co-create, co-develop, co-stress test, and co-implement ideas that nurture the conditions for emergent learning. Benjamin is also the Head of Upper School at Green School, Bali. He was previously the Whole School Leader of Learning and Teaching at Prem Tinsulanonda International School in Thailand. He was the Academic Coordinator at Misk Schools, one of the most prestigious and high-profile school in the kingdom. In 2018-2019, he was also the Head of Upper Primary and Middle School at Misk. Prior to this, he was Vice-Principal of the Middle School and High School at the Harbour School in Hong Kong. He holds a Ph.D. in History, an MSc in Education, an MBA, an MA in International Relations, and a BA in International Affairs. Benjamin was born and grew up in Paris, France. He moved to the U.S. when he was 15 and spent 11 years there in different cities before living in the U.K., Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and now Bali, Indonesia. He started his career in consulting for Internet start-ups in Silicon Valley in the late 1990s, working with people whose ambitions were no less than to change the world. This experience had a profound effect on Benjamin's outlook on education, innovation, and entrepreneurship.