08/06/2026
*PSA BLOG*
❓️What can Anarchists teach us about Education?
In this latest blog Professor Ruth Kinna, University of Loughborough and co-founder of PSA group Anarchist Studies Network, explores what we might learn from and for .
Ruth Kinna proposes that; "If the point of education was to promote cooperation and mutual aid, then sharing insights about educational practice in Emilia Romagna was as valuable as the advancement of abstract science...Science detached from life was likely to be unreliable. Art without science was impoverishing. The conundrum for the educator was to find a way of enabling art to inform science so that science remained pertinent to it. This required interconnection, trust, collaboration and dialogue. The way forward was to fashion institutions ‘from the bottom up’ to facilitate artistic exchange and the dissemination of science across communities. These ideas about education, teaching and learning continue to animate anarchist practice.... The UK also boasts a range of free skools, free universities, along with experiments in curriculum design and teaching practice. In mainstream education, too, anarchists work with professionals to find spaces within the crowded school curricula to share information about anarchist approaches".
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Author: Professor Ruth Kinna, University of Loughborough I’m not a diligent watcher of royal events, but I was excited to read about the Princess of Wales’s recent visit Reggio Emilia to learn more about the way early years learning has developed in the city. The BBC report calls its child-centr...
