Roundtable: What Does it Mean to Decolonise Unschooling?
Our panel explores how unschooling can move beyond Westernised frameworks and challenge colonial assumptions about knowledge, authority, and learning.
ChĂ©vanni Davids is a father, writer, and learning practitioner exploring regenerative approaches to education beyond schooling. Based between South Africa and global learning communities, his work weaves together unlearning, Ubuntu philosophy, land-based practice, and self-directed learning. He is the founder of Reimagined Learning Community, cultivating spaces where young people, families, and educators reconnect with curiosity, relational intelligence, and ecological belonging. His current projects include What the Land Might Mean by Learning and The Great Unlearning.Â
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Chemay Morales-James is an intuitive facilitator, embodied learning designer, ancestral guide, and steward of sacred land in Borikén (Puerto Rico). Chemay founded My Reflection Matters Village, a global unschooling and healing community serving over 1,000 members. There, she integrated self-directed learning, intuitive facilitation, and embodied liberation practices. Today, her work centers on land-based healing, ancestral reconnection, and supporting change-makers and visionaries in cultivating inner coherence as the foundation for meaningful, sustainable transformation.
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Kasia De Vydt-Jillings is a MÄori mÄmÄ of three, life-learning alongside her girls and husband as their whÄnau (family) reclaims te reo rangatira [the MÄori language] and reimagines education as an act of mana motuhake [sovereignty]. Sheâs also a womenâs storyteller and writer in Aotearoa (New Zealand).
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Vidhi Jain has been a Learning Activist and co-founder at Shikshantar for the past 27 years. She works with the Families Learning Together process focusing on unschooling initiatives, as well as on community media and expressions in Udaipur as a Learning City. She is interested in traditional/ indigenous knowledge and is working on the Grandmotherâs university. Vidhi and Manish have unschooled their daughter Kanku, who is now 23 years old.
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Meghan Suniga-Davies is a parent of grown and teen unschoolers, currently living in Austin, Texas. Sheâs been involved in Self Directed Education (SDE) for many years, raising life-long unschoolers while living in Asia, Europe and USA. She works with various groups and organizations within alternative education but her passion is with teens and parents through emergent programming and her local  Flying Squad.
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