Hello and welcome to the School Memories that Matter website: an online, digital, living archive dedicated to school memories that enable just futures of education, i.e. futures where education's past and present injustices, as these are (re)produced through schooling, are recognized and actively addressed.

This archive invites you to take a trip down the memory lane to recall what (in)justice felt like to you during your school years. Because 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 are precious resources about what matters in education for children and young people and how we can imagine more just educational futures together. However, more often than not those memories remain overlooked.

With that in mind, you are invited to navigate the Archive'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 building more just futures of education.

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 and many more. 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 educational (in)justice.

One more quick thing: If you prefer to submit your memory in a language different than english, please try to include an english translation accompanying your original text in the Submit Your Memory section. If you want to submit more than one memories, 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!