Empathy & Compassion

Back to School: 5 new ways to create Changemakers

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The world is changing faster than ever before. Institutions are flat, open, and highly networked. In this new paradigm, traditional approaches to education are no longer appropriate. We must educate our children to be empathetic Changemakers, able to collaborate, create, and act constructively in an ambiguous and changing environment.

Five schools in the UK have already realised what their role in creating an Everyone a Changemakerworld is. Learn more on how Ashoka UK’s first Changemaker Schools innovate and empower their pupils to be agents of change:


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