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Vandana Shiva and the University of the Seed (ep. 4)

Todays’ episode is an offering from the archives. It is part of a series of conversations in the Enlivened Learning project which took place between 2012-2013 and was one of the forerunners igniting the Ecoversities Alliance. Enlivened Learning has also resulted in a series of feature-length documentary films on transformative places of higher education. In

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Ku Kahakalau and Pedagogy of Aloha (ep.1)

Our first conversation in this series is with Kū Kahakalau, a native Hawaiian educator, researcher, cultural practitioner, grassroots activist, song writer, and expert in Hawaiian language, history and culture.  Since the mid 90s Ku has led the Hawaiian-focused education movement. Ku shares more with us in this conversation about the Pedagogy of Aloha which promotes

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Manish Jain and Swaraj University (ep.2)

In this podcast we talk to Manish Jain, one of the strong planetary voices for de-schooling our lives and also one of the co-founders of the Ecoversities Alliance. Manish has served for the past two decades as coordinator and co-founder of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India, and

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Karim-Yassin Goessinger – from Ivory Tower to the Pigeon Towers (ep.03)

Karim-Yassin Goessinger is founding director of the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CILAS) where he has taught courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He has lectured in Sociology at the American University in Cairo introducing students to the sociology of space and gender. As an anarchist educator and scholar-activist based between Cairo,

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