Decolonising Education World Cafe
17 May, Decolonising Education World Cafe, Les Étoiles de Jemaa El Fna, 6pm to 8pm
This event is free but registration is encouraged to help us prepare for the expected capacity. Register via Eventbrite.
The workshop has been prepared in Darija and English, we will adapt to the dominant needs of the audience with some translation available.
Join us for a collaborative learning space held in the format of a World Cafe where we’ll explore the histories, current realities and dream spaces of liberating learning and grounding our knowledge and wisdom in the soils of our lands. The session will weave narrative and story and examples of re-emergent knowledge ecosystems with invitations to explore together how these processes are unfolding in each of our lands and realities.
World Cafe is a methodology for hosting group discussions and connection. Feel free to bring a snack to share with your table, this can be from your lands if you’re coming from afar, or from local harvests.
Rowan Salim is a geographer and learning activist, exploring cooperative, grounded and egalitarian alternatives to schools and universities. She is engaged in rediscovering how we learn in community and in connection with the land. She experiments, connects, hosts workshops and pilots and supports start up groups to tune into and celebrate existing local learning technologies and to design localised learning communities and networks. She set up a pop up alternative learning lab and incubator, co-founded a sociocratic learning community for unschooled children in London called Free We Grow, helped set up the Freedom to Learn Network, and is on her own journey getting acquainted with land and livelihoods learning how to grow food and forage, make medicine, preserve jams, create habitats and whittle wood with Putney Community Gardens.
Rowan has Iraqi heritage, grew up in the UK, Morocco and Yemen and has lived and worked throughout SWANA and in the British Isles. She likes to play, hear stories and share food!