autonomy: the exercise or practice of self-governance
education: learning constrained to a coercive process.
empire: a form of social organization seeking to concentrate power in itself, through coercion, to the point of supremacy (hegemony)
enclosure: the cage, literal or metaphorical, that empire uses to exercise control over something (e.g. fences around land, prisons around people, educational institutions around knowledge).
learning commons: processes, places and spaces where people learn with the assumption of abundance and directed by a principle of free association and ethic of cooperation.
(i.e. it is recognized that learning happens everywhere, all the time and that the more knowledge is shared the more it increases in quantity and quality, that learning creatures naturally benefit from exercising agency and autonomy in their learning, and therefor the imposition of scarcity and unnecessary suffering are eradicated through the free, active and decentralized sharing of information and practice).
self-determination: the exercise of one’s capacity for autonomy.