<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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? <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Blessings all,<br>Melanie</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 11:31 AM Ashish Kothari <<a href="mailto:ashishkothari@riseup.net">ashishkothari@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>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! :)<br>
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<p>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 ? <br>
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<p>(I am copying in here also the GTA core team to let them know of
this). <br>
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<p>ashish <br>
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<div>I wanted to share a recent interesting and meaningful
experience that came about directly as a result of this
network.</div>
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<div>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 <a href="https://bit.ly/3MWczsB" target="_blank">our google sheet</a> ) reached
out to us in the following week and we had a lovely
conversation about pedagogies and experiential learning-
making abstract values more tangible.</div>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>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, </div>
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<div>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. <br>
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<div>In this context, thanks to such a simple assignment, I
got to connect with my students in a very different and
humane way.</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>Because look how New York affected Bangalore!. </div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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