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Matthias Mullner
Hallo!
An alle von Euch, die wegen meinem Crowdfunding-Projekt nun auf dieser Homepage gelangt sind. Ihr kennt das Bild oben bereits Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
Hello!
To Everyone who found the EoT website through my crowd-funding project. You already know the picture above.
Olá!
To all the EoT participants! We will soon get to know each other better!
My name is Matthias. I am from Austria.
Right now I am working in a parents-organized kindergarten and I am studying eco-pedagogy and environmental education at university. Some years ago I worked in a forest-kindergarten and did a course on Montessori education.
For me good education is a tool for liberation and can lead to more understanding of nature, people and oneself. In good education you find love for life.
During my stay in Brazil I would like to focus on eco-pedagogy, eco-agricultural education and early childhood education.
I am curious.
Each One Teach One.
Peace and Love.
I-tinually
MATTHIAS
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Update from Philippe:
Yesterday I visited a dream school. It was impressive. So much love and truth. Happy, shining and smiling kids transforming their families. Healthy food, a flourishing forrest and garden as learning space. Enjoyed an very informative conversation with Mónica who hosts an amazing kids group in Paraty. I listened the incredible story about a family that has been restoring and preserving the wild life of Brazil. A forrest that has been growing on a concrete desert. A story that needs to be to told. About a visionary and his family that created an institute to learn and teach about environment and life. It was a wonderful day. Full of nice meetings. I am really grateful for this day! #CELAVE #eot2014 #eotbrazil #educationrevolution
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Pau Lluch
Hello! My name is Pau and I am a Catalan from València. I am a teacher in a high school and I like my work but I don't like the education system of my country. So, Edu on Tour is for me an amazing opportunity to know different alternative education projects. Long time ago I am thinking about this and I try to introduce changes in my work but it is very difficult. The System is a big problem but I find another worrying problem: most of the time, the people who works in this system don't believe that other system is possible. They don't know other education systems, and they are working like there isn't other alternatives running, in fact, right now. So, one of the main problems is changing mentalities. And this, of course, is also difficult.
I would like to learn about what other people are doing, in some cases, since many time ago. And, I think, one of the countries most interesting now, from this point of view, is Brazil. I would like to share this experiences with my colleagues, show them alternatives, make a work team with many of them, transmit them the enthusiasm and the energy that we need to transform the education in something democratic, free, exciting and respectful with the children.
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Update from Philippe:
The world is collapsing and #eot2014 is leveling up! when a monk is sitting next to you and working on making the world a better place then it is a good sign. :)) Just talked to Ricardo Semler (#semco) and he will get back to us next week. Vamos gente!!! Vamos fazer a revolução interna! #love #eotbrazil #professionalhippies #educationrevolution (em Hotel Copacabana Palace)
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Flor Benaducci
I am currently studying the fourth and final year in Initial Teacher Education. Also, the first year course in the Faculty of Science in Education. Working sporadically in kindergartens and collaborate in cultural centers in underserved areas, playgrounds and conducting workshops.
I am interested in learning about popular education and experiences in order to experience this environment where teaching takes place in Latin America in order to enrich my training.
My training as a professional line has a strong mark in the field of educational research the different modes that make up the history of education.
My mission is to contribute from active participation in the transformation of education globally, creating spaces that allow both the development of the full potential of individuals, as well as eliminate the individualistic interests and skills in this area.
Deeply hope that this trip will surprise us in each of its stages. My expectations are strongly marked in meeting my classmates and learn together with them about the themes that will be developed along this journey.
Email: [email protected]
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Sofie Baeke
Hello everybody! I am Sofie from Belgium, a-35-year-young, sensitive, adventurous autodidact, who´became´ a teacher of philosophy, ethics and religion only some years ago. I love gardening, telling stories, living in the now, freeing myself from prejudices, being outdoors in nature, listening to silence and dancing.
Like many others I ended school completely confused and unmotivated but luckily I could slowly recover my innate curiosity through studies in philosophy and life experiences. After university, I needed to learn to go with the flow again, open my mind, discover outdoors lifestyles, develop all my senses to investigate the meaning of ‘quality of life´. Shouldn´t education start with this research? So I went living and working in other countries, teaching myself some languages, telling stories to strangers as a guide, travel agent and tour manager, meeting extraordinary people… I finally discovered learning in a natural way and I loved it!
Teaching in traditional schools with a rigid structure, with many rules and ´shoulds´, to bored and unmotivated pupils, I suddenly saw many ME´S in front of me. Sitting on a chair for too many hours can’t be healthy, can it? Obtaining (physical and mental) obedience through fear, is that democratic and respectful? Learning what you don´t want to learn (and will most likely never need in life), seems a big loss of precious quality time to me. It makes you indifferent to life. We don´t want to raise children to passively accept whatever their superiors tell them (to think and do), do we?
That explains why I am passionate about alternative schools and methods like practical philosophy, creative learning through the arts, holistic and spiritual education (Krishnamurti), critical pedagogy (Paulo Freire), democratic schools such as the Sudbury schools and last but not least emotional education.
Joining Edu On Tour in Brazil gives me the opportunity to be a part of an education activist network. I am not alone! It is ok to be rebellious! It gives me the chance to discuss methods, to learn different approaches and to write about it. My dream is to create a kind of learning community and perhaps my own pedagogy? P.S I can´t wait to feel the joy of Brazilian dance!
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Jürgen Eibensteiner
Hey my name is Jürgen and I am from Austria. I finished my studies this year in physical therapy, so I do not have a background in teaching or education. But I went through 16 years of schooling in Austria and I know how the traditional structure works. I learnt most of my skills outside of school, so during my school time I got prepared for a job, but not for the real life. My dream is to set up an alternative where children can learn things in a natural way (e.g. playing, explaining things to each other, etc.) and see the connection to the real life. My believe is, that to make a change children and adults have to connect to each other and to nature again.
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Nicole Zatz - Living and Learning in São Paulo
Animals are born, grow, reproduce and then die. That is one of the things we learn at school. And because humans are also animals, we should follow that order just like school books tell us to do. They also tell us to sit in tiny uncomfortable chairs and obey, until our brains get tired and then we rest for a few hours every night.
Well, the city I grew up and live at now never sleeps. In the midst of a ton of bars and clubs, film festivals and all niter events of all sorts São Paulo keeps running, unfortunately no one told that to the transportation system so it could follow the rhythm.
But one question that would not leave my mind was, how exactly is it that so many things can be happening, that there can be so many initiatives - if everyone has to graduate, follow a set of rules and be graded by a linear system of learning? Something seems way off here.
Hopefully for the sake of us all, including (but not limited to) the children, traditional schools are not the only learning institutions that share a space in this huge global city. And for the last couple of years I’ve had the opportunity to get to know some of those not so traditional spaces.
See, before I share this info I think it is fair to say I do not have a background in the education field (B.A. and that sort of thing, although it was a close call). However, I have spent the last four years doing volunteering and social work in public schools in the center and it is amazing to watch how much those kids learn when they are outside of the classroom, you really listen to them and let them be artistic and playful.
So that said, I have had the opportunity to visit schools like Amorim Lima, a place where the principal actually listens to the students and accepts projects that come from initiatives other than the traditional curriculum. Projects such as doing stop motion videos in a class as part of learning science and geography, bringing people from traditional cultures and bike collectives to interact with the students and hosting Non Violent Communication workshops. I also got to visit the amazing environment of Projeto Âncora, a school that has its own circus arena and the students are free to walk around the campus and choose the projects they will work on with peers and mentors.
But the thing is there are also a bunch of adults, such as myself, who have finished their school time (sounds like prison? It should) and want to know more about alternatives and how the system can change. Luckily for me, one of those people was my colleague in an entrepreneurship training and I was there to witness the very beginning of the online platform Cinese, which is a place where you can create your own workshop about the theme you want to teach, or join one about something you want to learn. And in one of the times I was participating in a workshop where they showcased La Educacion Prohibida, one of the speakers was talking about unschooling and her experience (it was Ana Thomaz). I actually saw her speaking again in a film festival about educational initiatives and in between those two times I participated in an event where I found out about Edu on Tour, and there was also guy who knows a lot about unschooling, he’s thirteen and one of the coolest most influential entrepreneurs I know. His family created project called Escola com asas (School with wings) which helps people with learning outside a formal educational environment.
More and more I get to witness the growth of learning communities lead by people who are extremely unsatisfied about the way the system operates now. I’ve seen it at international conferences such as Festival Transformar, or at smaller events in book shops run by people who have a pre-school where kids meditate and eat veggie meals. I’ve had my eyes covered for over two hours for an artistic experiment with people from Piracanga Ecovillage and witnessed the first steps of a social project in a permaculture center in Rio de Janeiro (Sinal do Vale), where the 12 year olds lived and didn’t know about the beauty and biodiversity until a small group of North American volunteers designed afternoon hours to show them.
Right now my twelve year old self is cheering with this perspectives and initiatives. The girl waking before 7 a.m. to put on a boring uniform and sit through 6 yours of lectures plus homework, and sketched her perfect school in a notebook finally found more people with the same ideas.
By the way, my name is Nicole and I am working on my own enterprise called Radiko (roots in esperanto), we are building an online program that uses creative learning mostly through arts to explore themes related to sustainable living such as organic gardening, Non- violent communication, collaborative consumption and more.
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We feel your love!!!! Let's spread it and share it together!!!
Our application phase for Edu on Tour 2014 closed last weekend and our call got a mindblowing response. 60 applicants from all around the world decided to take off 6 weeks, invest their resources and join the Education (R)evolution. 60 shining and caring superheroes that are willing to transform themselves, change the world and take on their responsibility.
We are overwhelmed by this great number of beautiful change makers and change agents. :) Let's make the global movement stronger. Let's meet the future of our education and let's spread the brazilian dynamic all around the world. :)
We are now working on adjusting our format and are happy for each support. It would be our dream to bring all to Brazil and foster the local but also global movement of alternatives in education with the help of our Brazilian friends and communities! Tamos juntos! It is time!
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Beavon Magare
Hi family, I am Beavon, 20 year old Kenyan part time of IT student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.
I am a co-founder and Public Relations Officer volunteer at Complitkenya a local Community Based Organization in Kenya founded by a team of young IT professionals seeking to promote ICT literacy in rural Africa. (Email: [email protected]) (FB: www.facebook.com/Complitkenya)
I am promoting communities for I see the glaring gap in my local communities; the need for one to champion the development of the rural part of the world which is majorly sidelined/marginalized.
Being part of the team to Brazil is a major boost in learning, teaming up, sharing and co-relating with other players in the education development industry.
I am passionate about developing, designing, formulating and coming up with new procedures to bring change to the world by using social innovations with impact and which are worthwhile.
As the founder of YouthTalk Afrika, I aim at seeing generation worth to take over the leadership mantle decently. I encourage involvement of the youth in formulation, implementation, oversight, monitoring and evaluation of policies and government activities in all parts of Africa promoting social, cultural, economic, technological, and physical empowerment.
I believe being part of the problem, we can encourage a culture of being the solutions to the problems; making the world of 21st century a better place to be.
See you at BRAZIL. Thank you.
Contact me
Email: [email protected]
Skype: beavon.magare
Phone: 254(0)7 00 613 686
Facebook: Beavon Magare
Twitter: @beavonmagare
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Marcel Rasche
I'm 24 and I graduated my studies of Industrial Engineering at the University of cooperative education in Ravensburg, Germany. My partner company was the electromechanical company Siemens plc. I could have chosen the easy option: a secure career with the Munich-based technology group. But after graduation, I had other dreams: to test my own abilities, to develop freely and to make the world a better place. The following three years I did just that: As co-founder of a seminar provider, a co-working space in Amsterdam and a consulting firm. In parallel I visited the Knowmads International Business School in Amsterdam, an alternative college for young entrepreneurs. Since the end of 2013 I work on a new project: Consulting Cum Laude, the Generation Y Consultancy.
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oi Brazil! after a warm welcome from brothers and friends yesterda, reflections about communidades e social innovation. the revolution of society is happening early in the morning! #socialinnovation #hubsaopaulo #impacthub #eotbrazil #eot2014 (em Livraria da Vila JK Iguatemi)
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Alys Mendus
Hi, I'm 35, from the North of England, a teacher passionate about making radical changes in Education that impact everyone in society. I am just starting a funded PhD in (international) alternative education, social inequality and democracy key themes that Edu on Tour Brazil 2014 wishes to explore.
As well as teaching in state schools from Early years to 16 my background is in Steiner Waldorf, Forest Schools, Outdoor Education, Special Needs and working with families (Home Educators and Parent and Child groups).
I'm inspired by alternative, progressive and democratic education that thinks outside the box, which questions; What is education? What is the role of the teacher? Are we being radical enough? Does this meet the needs of the local people? For my MA I researched alternatives to rewards and punishments, the traditional approach in the UK, investigating intrinsic motivation and new ways to communicate. I am challenged that many alternatives are fee paying so not inclusive. I dream that one day the local school will be radical.
I have designed my life to give me the freedom to travel and explore. Everywhere I go I visit schools (eg USA, Scandinavia, Asia). I usually write a review, share experiences with friends and have had one article published in the journal (www.othereducation.org). However by joining Edu on Tour I will be able to take this further. I am excited about being part of a team involved in cutting edge, grassroots work with a key focus on networking by using media, the Internet and film as well as a conference to connect educators in Brazil and sharing this new knowledge internationally. I no longer will be alone but part of something that hopes to make a difference to children's lives whatever their background. This will then feed into my PhD research and hopefully inspire change in the UK.
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Veronika Klimesova:
Hi, I’m 33 years old Czech entrepreneur sailing the seven seas.
I believe that the education should help us to unlock our own potential. Sadly, I’ve learnt majority of my skills I use now outside of school, and the most important ones during my travels. That’s one of the reasons why I joined presente! and Edu on Tour – I feel deep need for real transformation of our current system!
I look forward to exploring all of the Brazilian initiatives and also to creating bridges between what’s happening here and in the other parts of the world in the field of education. Because if we want to change the world, we need to work not only alongside each other but truly together.
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Many of have asked how you can cover the expenses and earn some financial support from your local community.
Hope you manage to successfully raise your next step in your personal leadership development. :) See you in Brazil!
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Prep Talk EoT2014 #1
What a wonderful kick off for our EoT2014: Brazil!!!! 8 education activists from 8 different countries from 4 continents discuss together how to create a project that supports alternative education initiatives in Brazil. We discover what we need for collaboration and mutual empowerment. Our path is long. Our excitement is seducing. Come and join us and become part of a growing movement. Mindshifting movement.
http://eduontour.org/JoinTheTour
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Prep Talk. hey education activists and revolutionaries! Let's get ready! Edu on Tour 2014 is coming up! For those who want to get active in transforming our education systems, join us today for the Prep Talk for Edu on Tour 2014: Brazil.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1465041893761784/
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