Upcoming Events
Critical Pedagogy Dialogues
Wednesday, May 8 and Wednesday, August 21
Facilitated by Chris Wright and Kate Joranson
Presented by the Kinloch Commons, co-sponsored by the Center for Urban Education and the Practices of Freedom Project
Teaching & Learning Liberatory Praxes in the University
Wednesday, May 8 | 3 – 4:30 p.m. ET
Virtual
We will study Robin DG Kelly’s “Black Study, Black Struggle” to anchor a dialogue on the tensions among freedom work, university structures, and ideological commitments. We will collectively grapple with community building and educational institutions, engaging the undercommons as pedagogy and praxis.
Refusing Teacher/Learner Binaries
Wednesday, August 21 | 1 – 2:30 p.m. ET
Virtual
We will explore the meaning of liberatory education in the documentary, “A Luta Continua!” to reflect on the ways the binary positions of student and teacher reinforce oppressive logics, and think collectively about how we might refuse, resist, and reimagine pedagogical relationships.
Resistance Movements and their Education Programs – Virtual Study Group
As long as there have been occupying powers, there has been organized resistance. Many of these resistance movements, particularly the anti-colonial armed liberation struggles of the Global South, incorporated liberatory education programs as a strategy to build critical consciousness within their movements and amongst the masses. This study group is a comparative study of these movements and their use of education programs as political strategies of liberation.
We will begin the first study session by examining the characteristics of these education programs and the political context from which they emerge. The second session will focus on how these education programs shape the process and outcomes of resistance movements. We will spend our third study session analyzing and reflecting on the global impact of these projects and their place in the global liberation movements. We will then wrap up the last study session by reflecting on our observations and the possibilities for schooling in a liberated context.
Guiding questions:
- What are the characteristics of these education programs?
- How do they help shape the process and outcomes of these resistance movements?
- How are these educational projects part of a global momentum?
- What are the possibilities for schooling in a liberated context?
Hana Dinku is the Director of the Lealtad-Suzuki Center for Social Justice at Macalester College. Hana’s research, study, and community organizing efforts focus on the intersection of education, race, gender, and social justice. She is committed to working with local, national, and global communities to dismantle systems of oppression and empower youth through liberatory education.
Presented by the Kinloch Commons; co-sponsored by the Center for Urban Education and the Practices of Freedom Project
Study Group Dates:
- Thursday, June 13 at 5:30-7:30 p.m. ET
- Thursday, June 27 at 5:30-7:30 p.m. ET
- Tuesday, July 9 at 5:30-7:30 p.m. ET
- Wednesday, July 24 at 5:30-7:30 p.m. ET