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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hello Manish. Well, I would say that both Kelly and Laurence have stated what I would say myself.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">There is so much to unpack around education, of the ancient and of the modern. Reconciling the ancient with the modern is truly one of the great challenges of the moment.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Let me start off by stating that I was greatly encouraged by the IPCC authors when in
<span style="color:#251F47;background:white">their Working Group II report (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), they pointed to the importance of integrating ‘indigenous and local knowledge’ in research and adaptation. Now even scientists understand that
our dominant epistemology is a failure. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I will now add two additional trains of thought. One from a biomimicry perspective, the other from a technology perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In my MS in Biomimicry studies I learned that life has been evolving on Earth for 3.8 billion years. Homo sapiens has only been here for around 200,000 years. While most
of the attention on biomimicry today is from the capitalists who see it as an emerging new market with great profit making potential, the take away lesson for me is more along the lines of the need for biocentrism to replace anthropocentrism. In my coursework
I had a fair amount of biology about life and the miraculous properties of Nature that have evolved…the forms, processes and systems. We are surrounded by miracles that are harmonious and non-contaminating. Of course the indigenous have known this for millennia
as Nature is the great teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Now from a technological point of view, I am keenly interested in bringing back the discussion around ‘appropriate technology’. What constitutes ‘appropriate’ is a matter
of great debate, no? While so much technology is driven by capitalist greed with no considerations of the ethical, moral or value impacts they might bring about on humans or non-human species, there are some advanced (modern) technologies that it could be
argued are beneficial. Take satellites as one example. Let’s add additional complexity now to the consideration of satellites as a ‘beneficial’ technology, say the ecologically destructive extractivism in order to obtain rare earth minerals the technology
requires as inputs. Satellites can assist us in understanding Earth systems which is good. Conversely, telecommunications satellites are used to commit cultural genocide while promoting materialism, consumerism and ecological destruction as their byproducts.
So…what to do? What I can say is that the decisions about what is ‘appropriate technology’ should not be driven by capital.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Let me end here by saying that what we’re talking about here is nothing short of transformational change. Revolutionary change. I’m with Nelson Mandela when he says, “Education
is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you for listening!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Christian Stalberg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Doctoral Student<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Anthropology & Social Change<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">CIIS, San Francisco, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">“<span style="color:#454545;background:white">All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.</span>” – Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">“<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Go</span><span style="background:white"> <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">to where the silence
is and say something.” – Amy Goodman</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">“<span style="color:black">What is it that we can do that addresses whatever the problem is, rather than what it is that we’re trying to get somebody
else to do.” – Alice Lynd<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">“</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#202020;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">It’s better to die for an
idea that is going to live than to live for an idea that is going to die.” – Steve Biko</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but so did the divine right of kings.” - Ursula K. Le Guin<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> GTA-PeDAGoG <<a href="mailto:gta-pedagog-bounces@lists.ourproject.org">gta-pedagog-bounces@lists.ourproject.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Manish Jain<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 29, 2023 10:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group <<a href="mailto:gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org">gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PeDAGoG] Schooling the World<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">thanks for sharing christian. i would love to hear your reactions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">manish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">On Monday, May 1, 2023 at 03:55:47 AM GMT+5:30, Christian Stalberg <<a href="mailto:cstalberg@mymail.ciis.edu">cstalberg@mymail.ciis.edu</a>> wrote:
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<p class="yiv9379923480msonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"New serif",serif;color:#26282A">Perhaps most of you know this film. I did not until now. A must view!
<a href="https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/schooling-the-world-2010/" target="_blank">
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/schooling-the-world-2010/</a> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="yiv9379923480msonormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#1A1A1A">Schooling the World (2010)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv9379923480msonormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#1A1A1A">If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates
its children.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv9379923480msonormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#1A1A1A">The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding
schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a 'better' life for indigenous children. But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's way of learning
and understanding the world with our own? SCHOOLING THE WORLD takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world's last sustainable indigenous cultures.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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