CURRENT MISSION

To finish my PhD and then develop the World on the Street project (www.worldonthestreet.com).

ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Tom but most of my friends call me Pabs or Pablo. I'm friendly, passionate, motivated, open-minded and honest. I purr if you stroke my beard! I enjoy connecting with people and having a laugh, and I also love meaningful discussion. I like making art. I'm passionate about education/learning and very interested in critical pedagogy, global education, and transformative learning.

I help coordinate a project called World on the Street (www.worldonthestreet.com) that involves working together with young people to create and facilitate global learning activities (for EVERYONE to participate in) in public places in an attempt to:

- Challenge habits of mind and action.
- Catalyse critical-transformative learning.
- Provide opportunities for EVERYONE to participate in an informal and accessable learning environment.

PHILOSOPHY

Try to prevent unecessary pain and suffering to living beings.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have met, stayed with, and hosted Cser's from around the world!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My heart has been warmed and refreshed by this experience. I've met lots of fantastic people through couchsurfing.

Interests

Initiating global learning activities in public places, teaching, traveling, making and appreciating art, politics, social justice, music, reading, playing drums (djembe), crosswords, dancing, board games, smoking my pipe, eating, playing tennis, cycling, swimming, video games, football, films, cooking, poetry, watching stand-up comedy.

• arts
• poetry
• dancing
• education
• environment
• cooking
• politics
• movies
• video games
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• music
• drums
• cycling
• canoeing
• soccer
• tennis
• swimming
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Films = The Idiots, Amelie, The Edukaters, D Darko, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Dumb and Dumber. Books = Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse, Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire, Theatre of the Oppressed - Augusto Boal, Life of Pi - Yann Martel, Straw Dogs - John Gray, Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky. Music = Radiohead, The Cure, Let's Buy Happiness, White Stripes, Smashing Pumpkins, The Verve, Pixies, Smiths, Fugazi, Gil-Scott Heron, Flaming Lips, Billie Holiday, Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Tim and Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Miles Davis, Foals, Curtis Mayfield, Passion Pit, Bob Dylan.....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Standing naked in a canoe on the Cahaba river and heading straight into a deafening thunderstorm.

Teach, Learn, Share

Let's unlearn together!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States

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