School-Related Stress and Anxiety: End the Suffering
Description
Dr. Peter Gray, researcher and author of Free to Learn, will present research explaining how increased school pressure combined with the decline in opportunities for self-chosen, self-directed activities impacts children’s mental health. Dr. Gray will discuss ways we can address this problem, for our own children as well as our communities and larger society. Q&A will follow.
This is an online event via Zoom. Please register to receive the sign-on link. Pay what you want donations help us defray the cost of the event.
This event is organized by Embark Center for Self-Directed Education, a center in the Liberated Learners network. To see the list of centers currently in the network, visit the Liberated Learners website.
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