41. Self-Led learning Ceremonies: Your Best Defense Against Brain Rot

About this episode

This episode discusses self-led learning ceremonies as a means to combat brain rot and explores various resources related to personal curriculum and decolonization in education.

If you've seen the "personal curriculum," trend online but didn't feel like you could implement it in your own life, here's my take on it! It doesn't need to be a direct mirror of school! RESOURCES MENTIONED: Dahlia’s Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dahliaquintanilla?lang=en Learning Ceremonies Guide: https://liberatedlearning.org/download-free-learning-spirals-guide/ Are You Asking Enough of Your Brain?: https://substack.com/@naomialderman/p-175410802 The Once and Future King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King How to Start Researching as a Hobby: https://substack.com/home/post/p-168506463 Turning Towards the Wound: Examining Unprocessed Grief in White European Descended Settlers and Finding Ancestrally Supported Pathways Back to Wholeness: https://substack.com/home/post/p-162000427 How Can We Prioritize Decolonization? What Makes an Initiative Decolonial?: https://substack.com/home/post/p-162000427 Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/research-is-ceremony-shawn-wilson “It Feels Fake”: Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy in “It Feels Fake”: Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy in Predominantly White…

People in this episode

Host: Anna Howard

Topics covered

• self-led learning
• personal curriculum
• decolonization
• education
• brain health
• grief processing

Keywords

• self-led learning
• personal curriculum
• brain rot
• decolonization
• education resources
• grief
• learning ceremonies

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Once and Future King, Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods, Turning Towards the Wound: Examining Unprocessed Grief in White European Descended Settlers and Finding Ancestrally Supported Pathways Back to Wholeness, How Can We Prioritize Decolonization? What Makes an Initiative Decolonial?, It Feels Fake: Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy in Predominantly White Institutions

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