All formal learning involves joining conversations that started years before you got there and will continue years after you leave. What’s great about the rhizome is that we see and care about this – and think about how to draw new people into the conversation in meaningful ways. If only all education did this.
Another cool outcome is that being in this messy here and now helps to form a critical tool or lens to take back to these other ‘learning’ spaces that seem so settled and comfortable and safe and known and knowable. We get to mix that up a bit.
The messiness *is* the learning.