TEDxGuangzhou (TEDxXiguan) 2014-2023

把教育带回日常生活

周娅

在周娅看来，如果教育的本质是为了帮助我们活得更好，那么现在的教育系统，并没有让我们真正看到所面临的危机，更别说培养出面对与解决危机的能力。

主流教育过于强调知识输入和脑力训练，却忽视了人内心的情感、与社区的关系、以及对生态环境的认知。所以她想把教育重新带回生活的本质。而她最近找到的一个有趣切入口，是“饺子”——一种几乎人人熟悉的食物。

周娅是广东技术师范大学的教师，拥有英国舒马赫学院转型经济学的硕士学位。她善于运用多种艺术教育形式，同时参与推动城市可持续生活实践。她曾系统学习转型城镇、朴门永续设计、情意自然教育、应用戏剧、性别与发展等方向，具有丰富的跨领域教学与实践经验。

在广州，她曾发起或参与多个项目，例如“为食家庭”、“食物中的可持续生活探索计划”、“故事种子计划”以及“春田计划”。

Bring education back to everyday life

Ya Zhou

To Ya Zhou, if the goal of education is to help us live better, then today’s education system is falling short—it doesn’t help us recognize the crises we’re facing, nor does it prepare us to meet them head-on.

Mainstream education puts too much emphasis on cognitive learning and not enough on emotional awareness, community connection, or environmental consciousness. That’s why she wants to bring education back into everyday life. And recently, she found an unexpected entry point through something everyone knows: dumplings.

Ya Zhou teaches at Guangdong Technical Normal University and holds a Master’s degree in Transition Economics from Schumacher College in the UK. She works across disciplines as a multi-arts educator and collaborates on building sustainable urban lifestyles.

Her background includes studies in Transition Towns, Permaculture Design, nature-based emotional learning, applied theatre, and gender and development.

In Guangzhou, she’s been involved in projects such as “Food for Families”, “Exploring Sustainable Living through Food”, “Seeds of Story”, and the “Springfield Project”.