Hello and welcome to the School Memories that Matter website: an online, digital, archive-like repository dedicated to school memories that make possible just futures of education. These are futures where education's past and present injustices, as these are (re)produced through schooling, are recognized, addressed and repaired opening up more just futures.

Memories are not only about the past, but they are equally useful resources for our present and future(s). More specifically, our childhood/youth memories of schooling, often overlooked and forgotten, are precious resources about what matters in our education and how we can imagine more just educational futures together.

With that in mind, you are invited to navigate this website's growing collection and, if you want, to submit your selected school memory/ies that matters to you. These are memories that you want future generations to remember when imagining and building more just futures of education. Taking the trip down your memory lane, you're invited to recall what (in)justice felt like to you during your school years.

Your memory can be a seemingly 'mundane' everyday memory, such as a moment that took place in the school canteen, something that you've witnessed in the school yard during a break, or during an online classroom in COVID, an interaction with one of your classmates or teachers or anything else that you deem worth sharing. It can be a memory of a recurring or of a one-off event; The feeling of a space, the smell of a room; It can be joyful, sad, and everything in-between, a moment of discomfort or belonging, something that evoked a whole range of complex emotions; It can be anything you want to share, however 'big' or 'small', as long as you consider this school memory something that relates -more or less directly- to feelings of educational (in)justice.

If you feel more comfortable expressing yourself in language different to english, you're welcome to do so. And if you want to submit more than one memories, please make sure you submit each of those as separate entries.

If you want to learn more about how this Archive came to life, and also about its future, you can read more the About section.

Welcome on board!