Few things are more rewarding for an educator than to see students absorbed in their projects, oblivious to the passage of time, eager to answer —even outside of classrooms and after school hours— questions raised in class. This situation does not have to be a mere episode, lucky but fortuitous, in the lives of teachers and students: for Santiago Rincón-Gallardo, this way of learning contains the elements to transform the pedagogical relationship at its roots and, thus, produce profound changes in the society. The book in front of the reader crumbles several examples of daring bets that, in different parts of the world and at different scales, have placed learning at the center of school activity and that, with this new perspective, have functioned as true social movements. After an original review of the site that has been given to the act of learning in some of the most progressive educational doctrines, the author explores the future of liberating learning and invites teachers, directors, leaders and officials of the educational environment to occupy three areas: the pedagogical, the social and the political, to make a cultural change a reality and, among all, to liberate learning.

"Rincón-Gallardo eloquently describes educational change in both the Global South and the Global North, showing the conditions and strategies required to" free up learning "in education systems, as a whole and at the local level. This book it is both academic and practical, local and global, immediate and future-oriented. "
Michael Fullan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

"Rincón-Gallardo explains here how to release learning with the indisputable authority of his personal experience and with his way of promoting and spreading pedagogical practice. Rigorously, he studies the transforming power of professional insurgency as a grassroots movement."
Gabriel Cámara, Mentoring Networks