Writer. Educator. Futurist. Working to bring a greater sense of sanity and justice to education.

Some recent appearances and publications.

• An excerpt from my forthcoming book, Education in a Time Between Worlds, has been featured at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Reseach into The Anthropocene (April, 2017).

• My forthcoming book, Education in a Time Between Worlds, has already gotten some attention in the Washington Post (March, 2018).

• Podcast with Daniel Schmachtenberger over at Neurohacker Collective, recorded June, 2017. Wide-ranging and fast moving, Daniel and I talk for over an hour about IQ tests, the brain, education, and the importance of avoiding “monocultures of the mind.”

• Stein, Z. & Gafni, M. (2017). The Apocalypse of the modern world-system and related possibilities for democratizing enlightenment. Spanda Journal. 2(1) pp.93-103. [pdf]

• Podcast recorded May, 2017 with Jesse Lawler of Smart Drug Smarts, where we cover the future of schools (and their possible disappearance), my new book,  and a host of important topics in the philosophy of education.

• Interview recorded in February, 2017 for The Dyslexia Quest podcast. Covers some issues related to uniqueness, ethics, and the complexity the so-called “learning disabled.”

• Podcast recorded in January, 2017, at Dr, Charles Parker’s Core Brain Journal. Covers issues in social justice, testing, and the philosophy of education.

• My new book: Social Justice and Educational Measurement, from Roultedge, 2016.

• Hour long podcast from March 2016, with systems scientist Tim Winton, on Complexity Science, Learning Theory, Social Justice, and World System Analysis: The The-beautiful-mind-of-Dr-Zachary-Stein

(Human Development and the Global Crisis of Capabilities. Video from the 2015 Integral Theory Conference.)

(Whose Measures? Whose Future? Video from the 2015 Integral Theory Conference.)

• Article: Your Mind is NOT Like a Computer and the Mind-as-Ecosystem Metaphor. Appeared in the Fall 2015 issue of Independent School Magazine, a publication of the National Association of Independent Schools.

(That is metatron’s cube. My thanks to the artist.)