TRUE: Towards Radical Social Change. 2 – 6 December 2020
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by GrowingMinds
3y ago
2 minute read Akilah S. Richards, Kelly Limes Taylor and I (Zakiyya Ismail) are currently planning an Earthwide gathering for those involved in unschooling, self-directed education and parallel education communities whose practice is oriented towards radical social change. This gathering, which will be on an online platform, will occur from 2 – 6 December 2020. We expect the gathering to have both large and small sessions, running across various time zones and in multiple languages. The underlying philosophy for the gathering, first penned by coordinator Zakiyya Ismail, contains four parts: 1 ..read more
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How My Phone Helped Me To Read
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by Khadeeja Asvat
3y ago
9 minute read This is my article I have written over the last few months, about my reflections and remembrance of my experience living and learning to read. As I am an unschooler who has learnt this skill outside of the mainstream schooling system, I understand that my situation may not be the most common. So I hope my story can be interesting or helpful to those who hear it.  My Perspective Toward Reading As I Was Growing Up?  From a young age I understood the sounds of every letter, but it would take me a lot of time to read a word, and I could often sound out the letters but I was ..read more
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TEDX: EDUCATION IS A PRACTICE OF FREEDOM
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by Zakiyya Ismail
3y ago
8 minute read In this TedxLyttletonWomen talk, titled Education is a Practice of Freedom, I take us on my journey as I explored the intersections between learning, education and schooling and their relationship to the society we end up with. I propose that schooling in its current form is a tool of oppression and a violation of our right to education and that how we live with and educate young people are social justice concerns. Finally, I invite us to consider an Ubuntu Pedagogy as a way to reimagine learning, education and community. The talk raises many issues that invite further exploratio ..read more
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How unschooling helped me travel the world
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by GrowingMinds
3y ago
3 minute read Hello, my name is Luthando and I will be telling you about my unschooling journey.  It all began in 2017 when I decided to stop schooling. The reason I left school is because I didn’t feel different from the other kids. We all had to wear the same clothes and do the same work. Ever since I left school life has never been better. I’ve done things I was never able to do whilst I was in school. For example, I’m learning guitar, I play soccer more and I travel with my family more. While I was in school that was not possible.  In 2015 I went to London with my dad. It was my ..read more
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Decolonise! UnConference
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by GrowingMinds
3y ago
2 minute read DECOLONISE! UNCONFERENCE 16-17 NOVEMBER ENOS MAFOKATE EQUESTRIAN CLUB 1679 Cnr Vundla and Lefatola Street, Moroka, Soweto Register A space, an idea, a feeling and a time to connect, share, learn and grow together towards other ways of being, living, learning and connecting.  We will explore visions of a new anti oppressive, liberated community through a decolonisation lens.     Some of the ideas we’ll be exploring   Parenting Children are people Ancestral Wisdom Learning Community Unschooling  African centred knowledges and knowledge systems &nb ..read more
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Gamers of Colour! Why aren’t you using your power?
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by Zakiyya Ismail
3y ago
4 minute read For years now, I have been hearing about racism in the South African esports scene.  To be fair to the scene, racism isn’t unique to the scene. It is reflective of our deeply racist society. Racism exists at all levels, from subtle microaggressions to the overt kind.  There’s the denialism of the racism, the apologising for racists, the discounting of the extent of the racism, the ignoring of it until it hurts directly. Then there’s the superficial punishments for racist behaviour or ignoring and therefore tacitly accepting racist behaviour.   There’s a genera ..read more
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9th Annual Unschoolers’ Weekend
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by Zakiyya Ismail
3y ago
3 minute read The annual unschoolers camp has become a permanent spot on many unschooling and unschooling leaning family’s calendars. Each year new families arrive and so the community, connection and fun grows. This Nov sees the 9th Annual Unschoolers’ Weekend. Unschooling families will gather once again in the most beautiful of settings, sharing stories and joys, passions and dreams. It is a special time where we find ourselves in a space where our education and parenting choices are not just respected, but celebrated, a space where we are not judged but inspired, a space where we learn to c ..read more
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The Contradictions of our Existence
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by GrowingMinds
3y ago
4 minute read By Bayo Akomolafe poet | philosopher | psychologist | professor | passionate about the preposterous One of the most powerful aspects of our modern conditioning is the predisposition to describe, predict and control our experiences. This explains our crazed obsession with to-do lists, results and outcomes. Our entire civilization is instantiated by this primal desire to superintend the course of nature, to capture thunder in a bottle, to harness the wind, to colonize outer space and its daunting mysteries by scribbling mathematical symbols on a blackboard.  We have lost our s ..read more
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The Child as an Insult
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by GrowingMinds
3y ago
2 minute read By Toby Rollo of Lakehead University, Political Science Department, Faculty Member. Posted on Facebook in June 2017. Reposting here with permission. There was once a time in the media when it was deemed acceptable to insult or degrade a political opponent by comparing them to ‘naturally degraded’ groups such as women (e.g., soft, feminine, effeminate, hysterical, etc), to LGBTQ folks or to people with disabilities. These groups resisted, showing dominant society that categories of natural degradation and their reproduction in the service of an insult nourish a culture that is exc ..read more
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Reading Reflections
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by Zakiyya Ismail
3y ago
10 minute read “I’m not planning on ever learning to read”, she said. “That’s cool”, I replied, “there are four readers in this house, so there should always be somebody available to read to you when you need”. This is how I remember a conversation we had when she was around 4 or 5. I hope some of you reading this are at least a little bit horrified at the interaction. After all, reading is an essential tool to get by in the modern world. Is this how unschoolers foster a love for learning? Horrifying! If my eldest had said this to me when he was that age, he would have been in for a long conve ..read more
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