Using a Solutionary approach to education in a grade seven classroom encourage more curious, more confident, more compassionate change-makers

Researcher: Todd Knihnitski (Saskatoon Public)

Project Summary: As educators we are helping develop the leaders of the now and ancestors of the future. We need curious, knowledgeable and compassionate students to lead us into the future. As educators we can help young people become solutionaries who can solve problems in ways that do the most good and least harm for people, animals, and ecosystems.

To be a solutionary is to affect a more equitable world for the planet and all of its creation, through compassionate change in the biggest way. Change is a challenge which requires a motivated, curious individual who understands the systems that drive our current world. We will approach each topic scientifically and spiritually, tempered with compassion and a consideration for different worldviews. Students will be reminded of our interdependence and to understand there are many solutions to any challenge.