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In 2012 she graduated from university as a classroom teacher and started volunteering at Another School is Possible Association (BBOM). Immediately after she participated in the founding process of Happy Goat, the first BBOM school that realised the inclusive and peaceful learning model. For four years she worked with different responsibilities such as classroom circles, collective decision making and conflict resolution methods in Happy Goat and other BBOM schools. During this period, she took classes on nonviolent communication, children’s rights, deep democracy, restorative circles, mediation and sociocracy. During 2017-2018 she completed the Nonviolent Communication Foundational Training Program. In 2017 she worked for two years in a village school in Diyarbakir as a classroom teacher and deepened her practices. 

For the past two years she has been working with teachers on inclusive and peaceful learning spaces through the project “For children, first teachers” in Köyceğiz and preparing publications. She envisions a peaceful life with herself, children and the earth in peace greatly enjoys working towards this vision.
 

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Studios taught:

RADICAL PEDAGOGY: ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION MODELS

20 September 2021 - 25 September 2021

This program offers techniques, ways of thinking and activities to ignite critical thinking in learning spaces. It brings suggestions on the ways in which creative projects can concentrate on topics such as social justice, differences, collective living, empathy, climate and environmental problems, as well as how non violent communication can be cultivated in the classroom. It asks questions on how students can benefit from artistic inquiry methods and develop their crtiical thinking skills with a focus on social change from the early years of their education life.