[PeDAGoG] A shout out to Melanie Bush

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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> *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>
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>     *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:
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>             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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