Mesahat: Liberating Learning - مساحات: تحرير التعليم

Our Story

The vision for Mesahat is to create learning cities whereby cities become networks of online and offline inter-connected and inter-dependent communal learning spaces that employ the values, principles and practices of Self-Directed Education (SDE)* and life long learning. We envision taking learning from the confinement of classroom walls to life and its vast resources.

Mesahat creates a culture of self-directed education and life long learning. We promote citizen self-organization to create online and offline collaborative learning communities where learners are supported by the right structures, agile educational tools adapted from the technology world, experienced facilitators and inter-generational resource people to create their own learning journeys. We create alternative educational pathways where learners design their fully customized learning journeys based on their intelligence, learning style and passion.

At Mesahat, we support learners using agile education tools, the previous are tools adapted from the technology world to allow children to set their learning goals, manage their time, plan their learning schedules, reflect on their achievements, share outputs of their learning and finally tackle their conflicts with other learners towards a culture of collaboration. These agile education tools allow children to fully customize their learning experiences to their passions, interests and style of learning; it also allows the learning environment and resources to become agile and adaptable according to learners’ needs.

With these agile educational tools and our educational philosophy, we allow learners to acquire the most important skill of the 21st century, that is “self-learning” or “learning how to learn”.

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