our world in meta-crisis
What if the stories your school teaches are the problem?
Teachers and students are living inside economic stories they didn’t choose — and can’t yet see. We help you change that.
The Diagnosis
Education has been captured by a single story.
Students are anxious, disengaged, or optimising for metrics rather than meaning. Teachers are exhausted, constrained, and quietly complicit in a system that reduces learning to competitive performance.
“The obstacle isn’t a lack of heart, it is a lack of sight. A single economic story has quietly shaped what teachers think is possible. They cannot reimagine what they cannot see.”
the approach
Critical Economic Literacy as epistemic recovery.
See
Recover the ability to see the economic stories shaping your school - the ones so embedded they've become invisible.
Question
Critically examine what those stories cost- in student wellbeing, teacher vocation, and your school's ability to live its own values.
Re-member
Stitch back together what competitive logic has pulled apart: students from meaning, teachers from vocation, schools from their communities, and education from life.
Critical Economic Literacy is the ability to identify, analyze and reflexively question economic models, theories, stories and systems in order to address the power imbalances in our neoliberalized world for greater equity and well-being for people, animals and planet.
Ho, Anderson, Cheng, Ford-Coron, Pilgueva & Wakefield (2025)
Meet DISRUPT
The DISRUPT Framework
A thinking routine that gives educators the tools to question the economic stories shaping their schools — and imagine something better.
D
Definition
Question unclear or reductive terms.
I
Incoherence
Find internal contradictions in economic stories.
S
Silver Bullet
Beware of “one-size-fits-all” fixes.
R
Refutation
Challenge claims that no longer hold true in new contexts.
U
Unintended Consequences
Reveal hidden trade-offs and ripple effects.
P
Positionality
Examine context and perspective.
T
Theory's Assumptions
Expose underlying biases in economic reasoning.
What Schools and Educators Say
Trusted by educators across Asia and beyond
“Wonder is supporting our students in navigating this VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) world, and leading educational experiences for learners that are relevant, transformational, and rooted in real local and global contexts.”
LeeAnne Lavender
Storytelling - Service Learning - Global Citizenship Coach
“Wonder is activating this capacity for wonder in learners: an openness to and appreciation of the surprising, complex, fascinating dimensions of our world. An active and intentional educational goal in itself.”
Prof Nicholas Burbules
Education Director - National Center for Principled Leadership and Research Ethics
“Wonder’s approach not only prepares students academically but also empowers them to become responsible, compassionate, and proactive global citizens. In today’s world, where challenges transcend borders, this kind of education is more crucial than ever.”
Datin Jeanette Tambakau
Founder - Association Of Sabah Social Entrepreneurs & Economic Development (SEED)
“Wonder’s program has strengthened my belief that we need to be doing more to cultivate the habits of thinking that help students notice the systems shaping our world and feel confident questioning them and reimagining them. For me. this is what teaching FOR global citizenship is about.”
Dr Polly Clayton
Founder, With Intent Education
Partners in Wonder
The schools and organisations who Wonder with us.
Choose Your Path
Where do you begin?
Wonder serves two distinct audiences — school leaders who want transformative programs, and individual educators ready to disrupt their own practice.
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Programs for Schools
Now booking programs for 2026–27
Something in your school isn’t working — and you already know it. Wonder helps you see what it is, question why it’s there, and create something better.
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DISRUPT — Professional Development for Educators
Cohort 4 — Starts July 1
An 8-week online cohort course. You didn’t go into teaching to reproduce a broken system. DISRUPT gives you the language, the tools, and the community to teach differently — starting with your own epistemic recovery.