The Unlearning Project

This Substack is a space to rethink and decolonise the assumptions that shape education. I’m exploring how inherited ideas, daily practice and unexamined systems hold us back… and how inquiry can help us imagine something better.

By Birgitta Car

· Launched 7 months ago

The Student in the Room

On functional illiteracy, the privilege of prior knowledge, and what a Thai language class has taught me about every classroom I have ever stood in…
Jun 10•Birgitta Car

Weaving a Stronger Web

What a spider's web taught me about inquiry, uncertainty, and the courage to keep asking questions
Jun 5•Birgitta Car

Why Are The Rich Building Bunkers?

A Reckoning a Century in the Making
May 30•Birgitta Car

Get Australia Back On Track' — To Where, Exactly?

Nostalgia is easy when the past wasn't yours to survive
May 22•Birgitta Car

The Long Unravelling

On the slow collapse of trust in Australia’s political and media institutions.
May 12•Birgitta Car

The Welcome, the Haka and the Lord's Prayer Walk Into a Ceremony. Only One Gets Booed.

On double standards, manufactured outrage, and what we pretend not to understand.
May 1•Birgitta Car

The Serious Business of Play

On why the adults who've forgotten how to play shouldn't be designing systems for children who haven't
Apr 22•Birgitta Car

What We Paid For This Year

Aboriginal deaths in custody are rising. We are jailing children as young as ten. Most Australians have no idea.
Apr 13•Birgitta Car