clocks replaced with : ; . [Deschooling Time in the Small Isles].

The Scottish Small Isles - comprising Muck, Rùm, Eigg, Canna, and by extension, Coll - are geologically complex, with intersecting rock samples from the Archean (Lewisian Gneiss basements formed approximately 3 billion years ago), Proterozoic (Torridonian sandstone formed approximately 1 billion years ago), Mesozoic (sedimentation deposited approximately 200 million years ago) and Palaeocene (basalt formed approximately 55.8 million years ago as part of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum event). This practice research article - drawing on palaeontology, kinaesthetic learning and creative writing - takes the Small Isles as a case study for what geologist Marcia Bjornerud defines as a discernible "timeness" that humans should seek to attain: "an acute consciousness of how the world is made by-indeed, made of-time" (2020, , 5). Through their lithic intrusions, and interruptive strata, the Small Isles offer an alternative form of pedagogy: where multiple epochs, tenses and tempos visibly converse with one another; where "polytemporality" can be witnessed and physically experienced; where the notion of linear time is destabilised.