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Our Philosophy: Playful World Travelling
I love and loved reading Maria Lugones influential paper about playful world travelling. She speaks about the experience of those outside the mainstream (which I have seen is very tricky) and how they navigate and come to a place of consciousness. I've always liked the idea of identifying one's social location, but when Lugones says that that women of colour practice world traveling out of necessity...I get it...I know what she is saying.
One of Lugones' request is that women of colour learn to travel to each other's world, in the art of Play world travelling. I am a mom facing many 'multis' as we like to refer to our home-life. My children are thus faced with multiple barriers and opportunities. Some of their locations force them to climb fences, knock down walls, and re-direct their journey through various avenues and crossroads. These identities however, also allow my children to navigate certain spaces that others cannot connect to, and find new adventures in the many people and places that they come in contact with, mashaAllah.
What I also love about the art of Playful World Travelling is that Lugones spins a take on Marilyn Frye's notion of "arrogant perception" and the failure to identify with those who are different from us. I take these views very seriously because I think like all parents I want to teach my children how to identify with and commit to loving others out of respect rather than pity.
In essence, Lugones and Frye are feminists. Teaching my children and showing them how to look at the world has nothing at all to do with feminism, but rather, humanity (I guess), if I have to name it.
The art of "world" travelling is beautiful, because the purpose of it is to help people to understand the reality of other people’s experiences in every single aspect of life.
Read our Diversity Statement here.
The art of "world" travelling is beautiful, because the purpose of it is to help people to understand the reality of other people’s experiences in every single aspect of life.
Read our Diversity Statement here.
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Languages are so much easier for younger kids to pick up, I should know. We as a community grow up with Dhivehi( Maldivian language) as a mother tongue, we learn to read,write and recite Quran from such a young age that we do not remember not knowing them. And our medium of instruction at school is English.
Alhamdlillah,we are fortunate to be able to grow up with three languages and not even know how we acquired all three as we grew up.
I am sure your children will benefit from having the chance to know more than one language.
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I wanted to wish you well on your path and all your intentions. Your wise to start now with rhythms to each day, predictability. Not many unschoolers follow that belief, I was one of them and it left my child feeling like she was free falling and not secure. I think it is wonderful Rainbow will be growing up with many languages in his life. My husband speaks arabic and I wish he was willing to teach our children.