Jonathan is a sustainability educator, currently working as Head of Economics at Schumacher College.
Email: jonathan.dawson@schumachercollege.org.uk
Tel: 01803 847216
Jonathan Dawson describes a recent visit to Colombia where he taught as part of economics week of the Gaia Education sustainability programme. In this blog he discusses his personal views of how Latin America’s indigenous traditions are contributing to a quite distinctively powerful educational ethic. Read more…
Economics as we know it today is broken. Unable to explain, to predict or to protect, it is need of root-and-branch replacement. In this post Jonathan Dawson describes how some of the newest economic innovation is coming from outside of economics itself. Read more…
This post is part of a blog-series called Hunting Dancing Bears: The search for hope and innovation in a time of crisis . In this post Jonathan Dawson looks at the Gift Economy and how gift giving is central to the College both historically and in the future. Read more…
This post is part of a blog-series called Hunting Dancing Bears: The search for hope and innovation in a time of crisis exploring whether we are on the threshold of a revolution in how we organise our societies. In this post Jonathan Dawson describes a recent visit from Charles Eisenstein and how his insights and teachings around the Gift Economy could inform the ethic and practice of the College. Read more…
In this post Jonathan Dawson describes his recent experiences at the Schumacher College Summer School in the Glencraig Camphill community. Read more…
This post is part of a blog-series called Hunting Dancing Bears: The search for hope and innovation in a time of crisis exploring whether we are on the threshold of a revolution in how we organise our societies. In this post Jonathan Dawson looks at some of the creative responses to the over consumption of clothing. Read more…
This post is part of a blog-series called Hunting Dancing Bears: The search for hope and innovation in a time of crisis
Jonathan Dawson seeks to explore whether we are on the threshold of a revolution in how we organise our societies that is significant in social, economic and ecological terms. In this post he discusses the importance of recognising that much of what we ‘know’ is programmed by today’s dominant forms of social and economic organisation. Read more…
This post is part of a blog-series called Hunting Dancing Bears: The search for hope and innovation in a time of crisis
Jonathan Dawson, co-Head of Economics at Schumacher College writes about the growing wave of social innovation that foster generosity and sharing and the potential this has for the new economy. Read more…
