adventures in unlearning
This is a travel story made of little pieces. The image I’m putting together shows the why behind the interest in democratic education which led me to a one month learning journey to Brazil. I’m writing from a bed in Cotia, São Paulo, with feet so cold that I wish I had carried fluffy woolen …
I have bad posture and I’ve always found it very difficult to keep my back straight. My shoulders are stooped, my back is arched as if in hopelessness, my torso is bent forward. I look quite ridiculous walking like this on the street; especially when I’m all made up and wearing fancy stuff, and then …
There’s a fragment in The handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood that really caught my attention while reading it. Well, it’s fair to say that lots of fragments in that book caught my attention, but it was different with this one: it stirred some memory. This happens quite frequently while I’m reading, and I usually just keep …
Last year, around this time, something super cool happened: I got into a learning context where I was invited to imagine the most exciting kinds of schools – and then go find them in the real world. I had just joined the Alternative University in Bucharest, eager to explore the very broad subject of education. …