The Unlearning Podcast 3: Music, story-telling and community spaces

This is a podcast in the unlearning project series featuring an interview with Jan-Roelof Bathoorn. Jan-Roelof is a professional accordionist and singer and lives in the 'Oude Rooms Katholieke Ziekenhuis' (also known as the ORKZ), a co-operative housing project in Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. We discuss the value of the idea of unlearning in … Continue reading The Unlearning Podcast 3: Music, story-telling and community spaces

Beyond instrumentalist leadership in schools: Educative leadership and anarcho-syndicates

An article by Elke and one of our previous interviewees, Stephen Chatelier. From the abstract: Taking our cue from Gunter and Courtney’s critique of dominant discourses in the field of educational leadership, and their engagement with the concept of educative leadership as inclusive and activist, in this article we aim to deepen and expand the … Continue reading Beyond instrumentalist leadership in schools: Educative leadership and anarcho-syndicates

Towards ‘Defamiliarisation’ and Curriculum in a New Key

https://pesaagora.com/ideas/towards-defamiliarisation-and-curriculum-in-a-new-key/ What is curriculum for and how can it be rethought? This is a brief conceptual as well as practical article published on PESA Agora, aimed at offering practitioners, researchers and policy makers a different perspective on curriculum, starting from the notion of 'defamiliarisation'. The ideas in this article draw on the collaboration from which … Continue reading Towards ‘Defamiliarisation’ and Curriculum in a New Key