Dear PeDAGoG colleagues,

1. Firstly, it would be good to know the things people have been engaging with over the past few months, relevant to PeDAGoG.

2. Second, what are some of the activities that we would like to see happen within the PeDAGoG group?

There were a lot of interesting proposals to collaborate (on articles, summer schools, learning materials), Collaborative teaching, bridging community-based educational spaces and Universities, hosting online events etc (see below). It would be really interesting to try and actualise some of these activities, possibly in smaller working groups. Maybe we could start a monthly (or every 2 months) online session of sharing interesting methods/courses/approaches? What do you think?

A sad update: We have (most probably) lost the drive containing the collection of our courses/methods/pedagogies to a fire in one of our server rooms. We're still trying to work out whether we can retrieve it. If not, we will request those of you who had posted on it, to repost ... we'll send around another link for this.

However, the PeDAGoG reading list survives! in case people would like to revisit and update it: https://pad.riseup.net/p/pedagog-readinglist-keep

Also, I want to introduce Upamanyu (copied here), who has recently joined us at Kalpavriksh, and will be facilitating activities on the group moving forward (many thanks to Brandon who was doing it earlier) ... if we do collectively feel we want to keep PeDAGoG alive!

Pl. reply to full list if you have something you'd like to share with all ... if there is a message only for me/Upamanyu, pl. write back directly to us only.

thanks, and here is hoping this 2nd revival will be more long-lasting and meaningful :)

Follow-up points listed at online discussion held in July 2020, in case people would like to revisit what we had come up with:

STRUCTURE AND ORGANISING

Organising the communication and sharing in the PEDAGOG space so that material is accessible and not overwhelming the list
social-media presence?
Series of events where we share the approaches we are taking - webinar series from PEDAGOG?
Think about what gaps (geographical, thematic) exist and could be filled (e.g., currently lack of members from Africa)?
Creating a map of our expertise - create a visual tool with themes that concern this group - overlapping circles?
Can some of us find institutional backing, funds?

B. PEDAGOGIC AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING ACTIVITIES:

Potential to develop sub-groups on the following as a start:

Feminism and political ecology
Teaching exchange through zoom co-teaching
Collaborative journal article writing
Collaboration on Masters education and exchange and summer schools
Youth activist-research outside of mainstream academic structures

COLLECTIVE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE PEDAGOG NETWORK

Ethics and values of PeDAGoG

We need a statement on these for the kinds of transformations we want in society, the kind of academics/learning/teaching we feel is 'right', and the ethics for our own internal functioning of PeDAGoG as a network

Suggestion: Small group of volunteers to start a draft

Three levels that might be important:

1. Ethics of the transformations we want in society - direction of the transformaiton

2. Ethics of our own teaching and learning spaces

3. Ethics of the PEDAGOG network itself - open, inclusive, non-hierarchical