On this page, the Edu on Tour: Brazil team shares their experience of the first 4 weeks of the experience.
Reflection on the Edu on Tour
Week 1: Oct. 28th - Nov. 2nd, Ubatuba
A group of 18 curious, adventurous souls from Czech Republic, Belgium, Catalan country, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Argentina and Brazil came together on Tuesday the 28th to kick-off Edu on Tour Brazil 2014 with a week of meaningful dialogue, exploration and vision building. The group will be travelling over the next four weeks in smaller teams, inquiring into topics and schools of their interest, before gathering back in the last week to share and harvest our learning.
Week 2: Nov 3rd - Nov. 9th, Paraty, São Paolo
We moved to São Paolo, the largest metropole in Latin America with 20 million inhabitants. Quite a transition from the relatively quiet beaches and nature of Ubatuba. Lots to explore in this metropole! We've had the great fortune of being hosted by Espaco Comunidade in Monte Azul, a community center that engages the neighbourhood in political, social and environmental issues. Inspiring to dive into the life here and get a sense of what is going on. We've had our first visits to schools, and all left impressed and inspired by what we heard and saw. This week has been a good practice in creating more structure in this self-organizing process for the next 5 weeks, planning the events and preparing for how to document our learning. We have hosted our first events, one in Monte Azul with workshops for children, working in the garden and inviting people on the street to share their story, and a one-day event at the Impact HUB in the center, bringing together 50 people who are engaged in transforming the education system. Truly inspiring. #Indaba is the word we've created for this movement. More harvest to come..
Week 3: Nov 10th - 16th, Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Ubatuba
Get in touch with Rio de Janeiro.
Meeting people.
And relax.
Week 4: Nov 17th - 23rd, Rio de Janeiro
One project we are visiting this week in Rio, is a project called Harmonicanto. A beautiful and impressive project, where we will spent a few more days. Here is a little impression of our experience so far.
see - think - feel - participate
In Harmonicanto - Rio de Janeiro - 14-19 Nov 2014…
We see a vital place where people, children and educators can come together and create an atmosphere of dialogue and joy.
We think that the project - place... and people- offers a peaceful environment which is one of the basic human rights.
We feel home and a lot of happiness around
We participated in dancing, drumming, drawing, music, and took a walk in the neighborhood.
Thanks to all the people of the Harmonicanto project.
see - think - feel - participate
In Harmonicanto - Rio de Janeiro - 14-19 Nov 2014…
We see a vital place where people, children and educators can come together and create an atmosphere of dialogue and joy.
We think that the project - place... and people- offers a peaceful environment which is one of the basic human rights.
We feel home and a lot of happiness around
We participated in dancing, drumming, drawing, music, and took a walk in the neighborhood.
Thanks to all the people of the Harmonicanto project.
Travelling Team Brazil 2014
Pau Lluch
Hello! My name is Pau and I am 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 learn about different alternative education projects. I've been thinking about alternatives for a long time 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 work in this system don't believe that another system is possible. They are not aware of other education systems, and they assume there are no 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 already for a long time. And, I think, one of the most interesting countries now, from this point of view, is Brazil. I would like to share this experiences with my colleagues, show them alternatives, make a team with many of them, and spread the enthusiasm and the energy that we need to transform the education in something democratic, free, exciting and respectful with the children. |
Nicole Zatz
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. 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. 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 finally found more people with the same ideas. |