This has been the critical focus of my own work in Transformative Education and the organization I started to examine these core issues, at least in educational models -- the Transformative Education Forum (TEF-Global.org - new website) and its recent work on a potential TEF-Bristol, to be held in conjunction with the Bristol European Green Capital 2015 campaign.

So would love to follow up with you both, perhaps in September when you are back Denis and with you Anna on skype, as you suggest.  And again, with anyone else interested in these issues, nearby or far?

What I am personally certain of is that we are not the only ones aware of how critical this "learning" of internalized power structures and sense of personal efficacy or not, is constructed in childhood.  I believe that many corporate and  deeply patriarchal/hierarchical based ideologies have also seen fit to enter and control earlier childhood educational systems that had before been left more primarily to women as unvalued "women's work" extensions of child rearing.  My work has shown me how very consciously and ultimately destructively this started in the US in the mid-1970's and is now being exported to educational systems around the world.  It is why even now in the UK, "No Child Left Behind" (even under the same name!), increased standardized testing and the corporate-backed push for more use of "instructional technology" -- a playbook drawn up by the same corporate-patriarchal control now dominant in the US educational system -- have become the newest "innovations" pushed by the current UK administration.  And in other places (e.g. Africa), particularly the replacement of indigenous teachers by computers, argued for by "economic expediency".  (It is not obviously, that the technology cannot be a helpful tool educationally, but I believe it is critical to understand how that depends upon who controls it and for what ends and what indigenous and more human-oriented learning it is indeed used to replace?)

At any rate, would very much enjoy further discussion on these critical issues and will be in touch with you both and anyone else who would like to join us in that discussion.