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Errant imaginaries: weaving utopias

Why are our daydreams important? Because what we crave, what we long for, can reveal what is truly essential. The pandemic has shed light on the urgent need to change our current systems – economic, political, social and affective. Radical imagination is what we need to envision a change in our society, and then to begin to take action. At the end of March 2020,… Read More »Errant imaginaries: weaving utopias

Resistance and devotedness: learning democracy under pressure

If we imagine democratic education as school communities practising participation, to what extent can schools escape the current approach taken in the public education system? What if they encounter hostility and restrictions? Can we learn democracy through transgressions and resistance? The stories in this article show how resistance by a school community, albeit fleeting in some cases, and devotedness, can change children’s education. The three… Read More »Resistance and devotedness: learning democracy under pressure