ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a glimpse into liberating learning, as can be observed in a handful of classrooms, schools, and school systems around the world. In stark contrast with the fast-paced spread and growth of digital technologies for learning, the basic grammar of schooling has remained practically stable for over a century. In a digital media class in central California high school, students plan and run a live recording of a soccer match. The Learning Community Project has its origins in the work and ideas of Gabriel Camara, former Jesuit priest who in the 1970s developed close friendship with Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich, two of the most well-known critics of schooling and proponents of emancipatory education in Latin America. Liberating learning is easy to identify and relatively simple in its basic principles. At the same time, it is fundamentally different from conventional schooling.
