Developing educational initiatives around ways of being and knowing that diverge from mainstream approaches can feel like swimming in a sea against currents of resistance.
Months ago, I read an article on We Are Not Numbers about a young woman named Tala who lost all her books because of the genocide in Gaza.
We live in a world where we are constantly prioritizing the wellbeing of some over others. I wonder if our current moments of deep grief and darkness can teach us to reevaluate our thought patterns of identity, community, and belonging and to accept opportunities to learn what it really means to be human.
“By advocating for self-determination and empowering individuals to shape their own futures, we are fostering a sense of agency and optimism within our community, even amidst the current challenges we face.”
Sandra Lezama (Mushuk Away, Ecuador) realizó una residencia con el acompañamiento de Ecoversidades donde tuvo la oportunidad de vivenciar y trabajar con las plantas medicinales, con la abuela Daira, en Agua de Dios, Colombia con la Fundación AMDAE (Asociación Mutual para el desarrollo integral de la Afrocolombianidad y el Empresarismo). https://ecoversities.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sandra.mp4 https://ecoversities.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sandra_dos.mp4https://ecoversities.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/WhatsApp-Video-2024-12-07-at-12.20.28_794f511b.mp4
Evolving Education is an online platform democratizing educational practices that empower children and youth to take responsibility for their learning, their lives and co-creating a more beautiful world. It is an unlearning and trans-personal journey that has been recorded in about 150+ hours of interviews with leading educators around the globe. “We are Luz Olid
HIRAYA Collective is a community of blind and sighted individuals – we co-create/design accessible and inclusive spaces for learning, creativity and innovation. HIRAYA (Tagalog: imagination or vision) hosts multi-sensory learning journeys, creative residencies, community workshops such as disability sensitivity and accessibility sessions. HIRAYA actively co-creates with various communities in the Philippines and beyond. HIRAYA offers
Great Lakes Institute is a permaculture school seeking to create a space where the humanities can be studied outside the university context, in practice and relation to the land “The critical function of the institute is to instill in participants a habit of conceptualizing and contextualizing their working relationship with the world, through the disciplined
Unified Playfulness is a passion project linking together playfulness and mindfulness practices, providing a creative safe container for adults to make the invisible visible and think the unthinkable. “Unified Playfulness is a unique liberatory, decolonial practice, an approach that gives people a chance to slow down and step out their default modes of being, in
Arboretum: The Ecoversities of Philippine Native Trees and Vegetables is a project that addresses the alarming loss of indigenous trees and vegetables in the country and collective memory. ‘The need to change the current state of education where school textbooks fail to document and mention native trees and vegetables cannot be overstated. The Arboretum and
The Ecoversities Alliance is a community of learning practitioners from around the world committed to re-imagining higher education to cultivate human and ecological flourishing in response to the critical challenges of our times.
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