Dear All,
You are warmly invited to the 3rd online Forum of the
international Solidarity in Action Network on
Thursday 15th April 2021, 2-5pm GMT (UK time).
The theme is 'The Pedagogy of Solidarity in Two
Provocations'.
- The Coloniality of
Solidarity - Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
Solidarity figures prominently in educational projects
committed to social change. Yet what precisely solidarity
entails, for whom, doing what, and under what conditions
is usually only vaguely defined and often in contradictory
terms, even when solidarity is a centrepiece of the work
at hand. In this brief talk, Gaztambide-Fernández will
unpack what the multifarious uses of the concept of
solidarity reveal about the colonial and racist
underpinnings of the concept and how these are revealed in
contemporary uses. He will argue that without paying
attention to its colonial and racist underpinnings, any
project that invokes the concept of solidarity risks
reissuing these logics.
Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
is Professor of Curriculum & Pedagogy and
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Curriculum Inquiry at the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the
University of Toronto. His research and scholarship are
concerned with questions of symbolic boundaries and the
dynamics of cultural production and processes of
identification in educational contexts. His theoretical
work focuses on the relationship between cultural
production and solidarity.
- How institutions
(un)learn?: some ideas around issues of
solidarity, community and pedagogy - Javier
Rodrigo
This presentation will explain how to approach solidarity
issues through pedagogical projects in Barcelona, Spain,
by examining two particular, contrasting experiences. One,
is in collaboration with a group of youth migrants, in the
context of a memory museum. The other is a community-run
theatre, based on participatory budgeting and direct
democracy with special emphasis on community and
intercultural criteria for programme development. Both of
these examples are presented in order to raise the issue
of the need for an institutional pedagogy and to raise a
core question of cultural institutions: How do
institutions (Un)learn?
There will be an opportunity to question both speakers,
before breaking into groups to tackle a series of
particular challenges provided by the speakers.
Some reading in preparation for the Forum
In advance of the 15th April, we request that, ideally,
most people will have read at least one of the articles
provided by Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández below. The first
two are short and written for a popular audience, one in
English and one in Spanish, and similar in content. The
second one is a bit longer and more academic.
Here are the links:
RSVP
We very much hope that as many participants as possible
from the Solidarity in Action Network will be able to
attend this event on
Thursday 15th April. Please
can you RSVP by
Tuesday 13th to
solidarityinactionnetwork@gmail.com (or
on the website) and you will then be sent a
calendar
invitation.
Looking forward to seeing you and our many new members
there.
In solidarity,
Bernadette