Hi Everyone Have barely managed to keep pace with the exciting exchanges that have taken place on this platform. Like for many other missed webinars I promise myself that I would at leisure return to these and the readings posted here. I am Seema Kulkarni, based out of Pune, work with Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management or SOPPECOM for short (www.soppecom.org) an NGO with a primary focus on water for livelihoods. I am also part of Forum for women farmers rights i.e Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch or MAKAAM ( www.makaam.in) a national network with a vision to provide recognition and voice to women as farmers understood in its broadest sense. Have also been actively involved with the rural feminist struggles. One of the reasons why I am here is to explore possibilities of pedagogies that allow for combining academic expression with activist concerns. My specific interest is in learnings around ecology and feminism. I do hope to join in today's call to listen in for about an hour, but will 'I promise' be better prepared for the next conversation! Best Seema On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 16:35, sonali sathaye <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear All,
Time to introduce oneself! A difficult task (which is why I have been putting it off for so long) given the many winding skeins of interest that go in to that.
Broadly, as an educator (and a person), I am keen on asking the right question - a question that strikes deep at the root of a phenomenon/event such that the thing reveals itself automatically, effortlessly, without bias. And to attempt it would require one to be quite transparent, to not cling to pieties, to be fearless and admit to being wrong. Of course it often happens that one's obduracy or attachment is only seen after the fact - but still, that's the endeavour, to attempt to see things as they are and not through a film of one's creation.
Khair ("anyway" in Hindustani) - that attitude underlies my approach (and I hope practice) in teaching. The expression the teaching takes is through the subjects of Sociology, Drama and History - but I would say the "what" is almost not as important as the "how" of the teaching.
Although, I must admit that is not wholly true either - I do feel quite strongly that the content of our curricula are severely lacking in courage, in the ability to face up to what we have made of this planet and ourselves. So - more ecology, more sociology, etc but with us *inside* the circle, not outside, critiquing.
Finally, I just want to say that I love teaching high school students more than any other age group.
Have enjoyed reading about the diverse group that make up this vast network. Very good indeed to know of all the efforts being made to unlock the planet. Looking forward to this evening -
sonali
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 12:49, Dr. Andreas Weber < [email protected]> wrote:
dear post-developmental co-activists,
I did not really appear here in the mailing list as there was so much writing (and e-mailing) to do, really overwhelming. I am excited that this group exists and I am looking forward to the exchange tomorrow.
I am a writer, philosopher and biologist, and I am part-time teaching ecophilosophy at the university of the arts in berlin, germany.
my latest online publications in english are here:
https://in.boell.org/en/nourishing-community-pandemic-times
https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2020/05/03/covid-has-upended-all-the-norma...
and another:
https://www.humansandnature.org/being-nature
see you tomorrow, andreas
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