<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear lovely people of PeDAGoG, EDUCERE, GTA, Eco-varsities and more! <br></div><div><br></div><div>(If I miss any network or name - I request Urvi- the new coordinator of PeDAGoG) to add and forward...)</div><div><br></div><div>Kindly see the email below. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Christine Dann reached out to us after the 1st webinar and suggested an interesting idea : Generating a
resource list on 'alternative
pedagogies' .together.</div><div> <br></div><div>If any one here is interested to contribute
to this idea, please get in touch with Christine Dann directly (email below).<br></div><div><br></div><div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Pallavi<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Christine Dann</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:christine@horomaka.org">christine@horomaka.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 2:19 PM<br>Subject: Re: [PeDAGoG] Webinar recording of LIving Utopias webinar<br>To: Pallavi Varma Patil <<a href="mailto:pallavi.vp@apu.edu.in">pallavi.vp@apu.edu.in</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<div>Kia ora Pallavi,</div>
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<div>I watched/listened to the webinar last
night and went to bed thinking about it. When I woke up the words
"It is about autonomous learning for autonomous living" were in my
head. <br>
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<div>(Whereas the standard 'education'
system is about Other-directed learning for Other-directed
purposes - like a bullshit job, or being a good consumer, etc.) <br>
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<div>A lot of the discussion in the webinar
was around this issue of autonomy, as in "how autonomous (free,
innovative) can teachers employed by academic institutions be?"
and "how autonomous are the students when it comes to living what
they have learned - putting ideas into activist practice?" <br>
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<div>Most of my 50 year 'career' to date has
been as a researcher, writer and political organiser, but I have
also taught at secondary, tertiary and adult eduction levels,
including subjects and courses as varied as an Honours class in
Feminist Issues in Education, a night class in cottage gardening,
a second year university level course on wellbeing, and a third
year course on environmental policy. I also studied education to
level 3 at university (1971-73) and did two honours papers in
Philosophy of Education (different universities). <br>
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<div>I haven't introduced myself to the
PeDaGoG group as I am no longer actively engaged in any forms of
teaching. But I have been thinking about 'alternative' education
for a long time, and still have an interest in it. In terms of
what I might be able to contribute to the resources which you and
Sujit are compiling, I thought that a reading list (with web
links where relevant) to the main advocates for alternative
pedagogies from the 1970s to today might be useful. I could start
a draft for sharing with everyone, and they could add whoever they
think is also important.</div>
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<div>I have no experience with children
under 12, so what I can contribute is mostly about older students.
Hopefully there will be members of PeDaGoG who are knowledgeable
about doing things differently with small children - like the
young man on the webinar who spoke about engaging children in
livestock care by starting with teaching them to vaccinate
chickens. <br>
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<div>For doing things differently with older
students, George Lakey's 2010 book <i>Facilitating Group
Learning: Strategies for Success with Adult Learners</i> is
essential. There is more about this approach here - <a href="https://www.trainingforchange.org/" target="_blank">https://www.trainingforchange.org/</a>
Lakey and the other trainers for change put a lot of emphasis on
forming the group and stabilising it, so that everyone feels
included, before they move on to whatever the actual content of
the course or workshop is supposed to be. This might be important
for having more long-term success with your residential courses.
It is hard for people to have commitment to a project or cause and
working on it with each other unless this goal is valued and
reinforced as much or more than any facts or tools they may
acquire from a class. <br>
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<div>I hope this is helpful.</div>
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<div>nga mihi nui (warm greetings)</div>
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<div>Christine<br>
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<div>On 5/04/22 03:06, Pallavi Varma Patil
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<ol>
<li>Please find <a href="https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:2022:learning:01" target="_blank">here</a> the recording of the
April 1, 2022 webinar that was held in collaboration with
PeDAGoG, EDUCERE, and GTA ( The Global Tapestry of
Alternatives).</li>
<li>The webinar was designed to share the educational
initiative from India, Living Utopias, and it resulted in a
very interesting discussion about the future of such
initiatives, its pedagogies, and potential scope. A very
special thank you to those who could make it and for holding
the space for some very useful and lively discussions.To
those who wanted to make it but couldn't, we missed you.</li>
<li>We are hoping that the ball will keep rolling now and look
forward to the next such learning space online. We dropped
enough hints for Dan Baron (From EDUCERE) to take our offer
and hope that we can next travel (online) from India to the
Amazon!</li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sY1zrrRvYYh0l-6qCmRjQJwKun4BJMOH7jRJ7XK2huI/edit#gid=1612978896" target="_blank">Here</a> is the sign up sheet for
not just Dan but others too if you are interested to offer a
short talk on your initiative or course.</li>
<li>The format we tried out for the 1st such 'Alternative
Education' webinar was 15 minutes of talk and 45 minutes of
discussion. We can certainly try out other formats to make
the online space more free flowing and all trials towards
this are welcome!</li>
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<div>Best wishes,<br>
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<div>Group 2 Working Group members (PeDAGoG)<br>
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