Experience and philosophy: the classroom mycelial network

Abstract

What are the possibilities for fungi to teach us about their world and for us, teachers, to put this teaching into practice in the classroom? Based on this question, this article proposes to build mycelial networks within the classroom. In this case, this network was already created throughout the year 2022. The experiences mentioned here were produced in the encounter between a mycorrhizal network between teacher and students. In addition, several spores were released, demonstrating the conceptual connections between theory and practice. The process can be seen as a kind of microrhizic teacher, a concept created to designate the potent forces that are woven together with the plant-students. Mycorrhizal fungi exchange nutrients between plants and both are strengthened in this connection. As in the world of botany, in education there is also this exchange between teachers and students. Therefore, to spread these events is to be close to the mushrooms, which contribute to the continuation of the mycelial network.