We’re joined by Kiran Bir Sethi, the founder of Design For Change which is the world’s largest movement for change of and by children, operating in 44 countries and impacting millions of students and teachers. She is also the Director of the celebrated Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India.

Kiran is a designer who became a teacher, a principal who grew into an education reformer and subsequently morphed into a social entrepreneur. In this episode, together with host of the show and CEO of WISE, Stavros Yiannouka, Kiran discusses reflecting on the role of loss in education, preparing students for change, ethics, and practising empathy online.

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Follow Kiran: twitter.com/kiranbirsethi

Design For Change: www.dfcworld.com/SITE

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