[PeDAGoG] A shout out to Melanie Bush
Patrick Bond
pbond at mail.ngo.za
Sat May 28 15:23:49 CEST 2022
Me too, Melanie!
(I'm embarrassed I didn't pick her brain enough on this topic because
last night we enjoyed a Cuban meal and covered many other controversies,
at my favourite new restaurant in the bohemian Johannesburg suburb of
Melville, where her visit to quite a diverse set of comrades is
reigniting some internationalism, solidarity-economies and alternative
pedagogies that have been dormant too long.)
On 5/28/2022 2:04 PM, Vasna Ramasar wrote:
> Yes, please I would love to learn more too and apply it with my new
> batch of Masters students in my Culture, Power and Sustainability
> programme at Lund University!
>
> Sounds exciting - thanks Melanie!
>
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> Programme Director: Masters in Culture, Power and Sustainability
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> *From:* GTA-PeDAGoG <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org> on
> behalf of Melanie Bush <melanie.e.l.bush at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 28 May 2022 12:36:51
> *To:* PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group
> *Subject:* Re: [PeDAGoG] A shout out to Melanie Bush
> Of course! Perhaps we can both share with you so you see our
> approaches. Ok Pallavi?
>
> Any one interested just email us…
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 12:14 PM <singhvan at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for this fascinating discussion, Pallavi and Melanie -
> would you be willing to share details about this assignment? I'd
> be interested in trying it out with my students.
> Best,
> Vandana
>
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> *From: *"Melanie Bush" <melanie.e.l.bush at gmail.com>
> *To: *"PeDAGoG" <gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>
> *Cc: *"Global Tapestry of Alternatives" <gta at lists.riseup.net>
> *Sent: *Saturday, May 28, 2022 5:42:05 AM
>
> *Subject: *Re: [PeDAGoG] A shout out to Melanie Bush
>
> Pallavi, I am moved by your experience and your generosity.
> Every time I use this assignment the students go from being
> extremely skeptical - including saying things like what do I have
> to offer and how could one hour matter - to being opened to
> affirmations of worth and possibility. Perhaps we might do a
> joint essay?
>
> We've already begun exploring how we might match our students with
> each other in a future time bank experience. I feel certain we'll
> figure out how to do that for an extraordinary experience.
>
> I'll also report that from the PeDaGoG network, Sayan and I
> connected. One of his colleagues at WITS CDS spoke with my
> Ethnicity class this spring (as did Devika btw), and I spoke with
> folks at the center yesterday and we'll be meeting up again later
> today. Also met with Patrick Bond yesterday, Ashish, who I believe
> you know well.
>
> Building forward with inspiration from all of you. Thank you
> Ashish and the GTA core team for all your efforts in pulling us
> together. Very grateful to be a part of this initiative.
>
> Blessings all,
> Melanie
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 11:31 AM Ashish Kothari
> <ashishkothari at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> That's amazing and inspiring, Pallavi! And thanks Melanie!
> This is so much the essence of this kind of forum and network
> ... and it probably happens every once in a while but is not
> always reported back. In the Vikalp Sangam process we get such
> news occasionally, of bilateral or multilateral linkages made
> at the Sangam confluences or online, resulting in some
> wonderful collaborations and actions, and it then all seems
> worth the constant emailing, phoning, and following up! :)
>
> It would be great to get one or more of the students to write
> about this experience, which we can carry on vikalp sangam
> website .. and perhaps they can also publish in one of the
> youth magazines? And/or you writing about it ... with a bit
> more elaboration on what they tried, how they were transformed
> etc ?
>
> (I am copying in here also the GTA core team to let them know
> of this).
>
> ashish
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> On 28/05/22 1:09 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:
>
> Dear PeDAGoG Members,
>
> I wanted to share a recent interesting and meaningful
> experience that came about directly as a result of this
> network.
>
> You are aware (mostly thanks to my own emails) that Sujit
> and I offered the first session in the new webinar series
> called 'Learnings for Alternative Futures' (designed in
> collaboration with several valuable networks) by
> presenting our initiative, 'Living Utopias' on April 1,
> 2022. It was a session with a small group and we had a
> very useful conversation amongst the participants. One of
> them , Melanie Bush (more on her in our google sheet
> <https://bit.ly/3MWczsB> ) reached out to us in the
> following week and we had a lovely conversation about
> pedagogies and experiential learning- making abstract
> values more tangible.
>
> And so I learnt from Melanie (with her generous sharing of
> ideas ) how to set up an assignment around a Time Bank in
> a classroom space . I was skeptical but my students in an
> Indian University (36 of them) rose to the occasion and
> exceeded the brief and more. They paired up on their own
> and shared their skills and gifts. So from bike rides to
> coffee evenings to cooking, a lake walk, a photoshoot,
> braiding hair, to watching a film together, playing
> childhood games - they completed their time sharing tasks
> in myriad ways.
>
> And just like that my University class transformed like
> magic . We had a whole unit on Solidarity Economics with
> the usual reading list but now each one of them came back
> to class with a different mind set towards learning. They
> were so much more engaged as participants in ideas
> around Living Utopias. Without ANY exception I had 36
> reflections that spoke about the huge impact a small
> assignment made on the possibilities that friendships and
> connections bring,
>
> It was difficult to read their sensitive reflections
> without tearing up. These students are in the age group of
> 22-27 years. Coming out of COVID closures, and increased
> polarisation in the world around them, several are
> struggling to make and maintain real physical comradeship
> and friendships. Many are also very despondent about the
> future.
> In this context, thanks to such a simple assignment, I
> got to connect with my students in a very different and
> humane way.
>
> I wanted to publicly thank Melanie in this forum for this
> impromptu collaboration. Following our webinar was Dan
> Baron's fantastic session and a 3rd webinar in the series
> is on its way. I hope what is now set rolling continues
> and we do not stop soon.
>
> Because look how New York affected Bangalore!.
>
> Best,
> Pallavi
>
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