Tag: learning
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Coherence: Regeneration and Practice in India
“Every journey is a journey inwards,” wrote former Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjöld in his 1963 book, Vägmärken. My journey to Pune and Bhubaneswar in India over the past fortnight has been no different: I’ve come away with new friends, new ideas, reimagined practices, a shift in inward and outward perspectives, and most…
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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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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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Taking Root: Oxford, Agroecology, and Regenerative Learning
I am still fairly vibrating with the inspiring sessions, ideas and conversations at last week’s Oxford Real Farming Conference, an annual gathering of ‘farmers, growers, activists, policymakers and researchers from around the world who are interested in transforming our food system.’ This year more than 3500 attended on-site and online, with standing room only in…
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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.
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What is Regenerative Learning?
At this tipping point in geo-history, when gigantic mistakes have been already been made, humans need to be learning closer to the roots of life. The awesome secret of life is that it is regenerative–the organism or system (life) itself creates the conditions for more life, infinitely.
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Regenerative learning in practice
RLN Founder, Pavel, shares recent regenerative learning successes in academic leadership. This includes the ‘Transformative Education’ and ‘Movement Mind and Ecology’ Masters’ programs at Schumacher College, and the ‘Local Leadership for Regenerative Food Systems’ program co-created with the UNDP Conscious Food Systems Alliance. These globally distributed, practice-led initiatives intertwine ecological thinking and place-based learning, aiming…
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Regenerative Learning Podcasts
Over the past several years, RLN founder Pavel has had many conversations about the work of regenerative learning, transforming organisations, ecological thinking, regenerative culture, networks … and endurance running! Please have a listen from the selection below:
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