Educating Families Who Slow Travel the World with Rekha Magon

Trending In Ed with Mike Palmer

 Mike Palmer speaks with Rekha Magon, co-founder and head of education at Boundless Life, who joins from Bali to discuss her innovative approach to global education. We explore how Rekha's background in mindfulness and her experience homeschooling her children led her to create a network of micro-schools across beautiful locations including Portugal, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, and Spain.

Rekha shares how Boundless Life provides a turnkey solution for families wanting to slow travel the world, combining furnished apartments, co-working spaces, and Montessori-inspired education with Finnish pedagogical methods. We discuss how the pandemic created the perfect conditions for reimagining education, leading many families to seek alternatives that blend travel, community, and experiential learning.

The conversation delves into how Boundless Life's educational model emphasizes real-world problem-solving, cultural immersion, and mixed-age learning environments. Rekha explains how these experiences help develop crucial soft skills like adaptability and communication that will serve children well in an uncertain future.

Key takeaways:

1. Mixed-age classrooms foster natural leadership and collaboration while reducing unhealthy competition among peers
2. Slow travel and cultural immersion help children develop essential soft skills like adaptability and communication that AI cannot replicate
3. Parents can nurture their children's natural love of learning by thinking outside traditional educational models, whether traveling or staying local

We conclude with advice for parents and educators about nurturing children's natural love of learning, whether through travel or finding creative alternatives closer to home.

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