Sara Hendren - Healthy relationality, how we meet the built world, and the curriculum of the future

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Sara Hendren is a humanist in tech. This may seem like a strange statement, but it may be a perfect place to pick up Sara's trajectory. She is a brilliant designer, an affecting educator, and just might be the source of language that will transform the way you witness the world.

Show Notes:

• critique and repair (06:55)
• Generous Thinking Kathleen Fitzpatrick (22:00)
  • Epistemic humility
• Relational model of change (22:50)
• The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle (24:40)
  • Becca Rothfeld 'friendship as a recognition-relation' 
• Danielle Allen 'healthy relationality' (28:30)
  • Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century
  • Education for American Democracy: Excellence in History and Civics for all Learners K-12
• Curriculum of the future (30:00)
  • Danielle Allen What is education for?
• Trabian Shorters 'asset framing' (36:30)
• Jonathan Adler and narrative identity (40:00)
• Theologian William May 'an openness to the unbidden' (43:00)
• Book: What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World (47:00)
• New America Think Tank (55:00)
• Lightning Round (57:00)
  • Book: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard 
  • Passion: Philosophy and Fiction
    • Worldbuilding
  • Heart Sing: Medieval philosophy and theology 
    • Deep Time
  • Screwed up: Losing perspective on time passing while her children were small
    • Boyhood
• Find Sara online:
  • What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World
  • Newsletter "Undefended/Undefeated"
  • Website
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Sara’s playlist