Tag: education
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Interlinking Sustainable Democracy and Sustainable Education
Last month, I had the great pleasure of joining my co-author Pravar Petkar, at the International Centre for Sustainability in London to launch our paper, Interlinking Sustainable Democracy and Sustainable Education: A Roadmap for Reform. As we write in the summary, the paper “addresses sets out a conceptual approach to democracy and education which can…
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Placemaking through Change: 100 years of adaptive learning
Rachel Sweeney As we approach the 100 year mark of the Elmhirst’s legacy on the Dartington Estate in Devon, South West England, there is an opportunity to critique the lineage and direction of arts and environmental education at Dartington through recent notable developments, forming out of the past 5-10 years, and perhaps fortunately aligning as…
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Cultivating a Global Curriculum for Local Leadership in Regenerative Food Systems
I had the great pleasure of presenting at the Reimagining Education Conference 4.0 on 25 October 2024 with my colleagues Lisa Trocchia and Kate Rudd on our continuing work with the Conscious Food Systems Alliance and Prescott College on a global distributed learning network for local food system leaders around the world. A link to…
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Disrupting Fixity: A Path toward Regenerative Practice
Maybe it was the autumn foliage on the verge of turning along the riverbanks and edges of New Hampshire fields, themselves having turned into palettes of ochre and sepia from weeks of late-summer drought — perhaps it was the deepening topography as I drove further north — or likely also it was the late afternoon…
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Hunting the wild lemon / Vad citrom vadászata!
. Along the north shore of Lake Balaton in western Hungary, on one of the low green hills that overlook the arc of the lake to the south, seeds of a multi-layered community, artistic, and ecological regeneration are being sown by colleagues from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). Through an emergent project called…
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A Confluence of Learning: Ecology, Democracy, and Education
Landscapes are always in flux, adaptable, and resilient, and unreservedly open to the world, as democracies must also be. Although I often find the solace of inner spaces seductive — the close focus, isolation and quiet a welcome respite from a fraught world, I’ve found more recently that letting go is also core to building…
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The Future is Now: Weaving threads of an educational reimagining
Recognising the limitations of current educational frameworks to meet the evolving demands of learners, human and more-than-human communities and our shared socio-ecological systems, there is an ever more urgent need to fundamentally reimagine and reshape an approach to education through a collaborative and regenerative approach.
Regenerative Learning Network 