Dear friends, a gentle reminder about tomorrow's meeting, see agenda in Upamanyu's mail below. We hope you can all join (except some who have said the time is not suitable for them, sorry about that). See you tomorrow, 2 pm GMT! (link below) Do people need translation (e.g. Eng to Spanish)? If so, pl. let us know, we can set up the interpretation room, and will ahve to request for volunteers to do the translation! Ashish Topic: Reactivating PeDAGoG Time: Jun 6, 2021 02:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86350193741 Meeting ID: 863 5019 3741 One tap mobile +13017158592,,86350193741# US (Washington DC) +13126266799,,86350193741# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 863 5019 3741 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbKkilqA6w -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [PeDAGoG] Reactivating PeDAGoG - Online Discussion on 6th June, 2 PM GMT Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 16:28:08 +0530 From: Upamanyu Das <[email protected]> Reply-To: PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Dear PeDAGoG colleagues, For the upcoming online meeting on 6th June 2 PM GMT, we have crowd-sourced ideas for specific themes that we can work on. This will be done using moderated breakout rooms that can have a sharp focus on getting the group to think of short term deliverables. A few PeDAGoG colleagues have volunteered to help moderate these sessions! :) Please do go through the thematic points, and let us know if there are any additional points you would like to add. Depending on the overall turnout, we can divide/club together certain themes. Here are themes that we can work upon in this meeting: 1. *Pedagogic and knowledge sharing to build and strengthen the repository of materials * This is a broad theme and I can be subdivided into (say) : 1 a) Dynamic and updated *reading list* on key aspects to be created and maintained on a server. 1 b) Curating and maintaining a *database of existing course documents* related to PeDaGoG teaching- in and outside of university teaching (even visually on a world map to see where all are we teaching/researching/etc in varied ways would be exciting!) 1 c) Building a *repository of classroom resources* apart from academic readings such as films/ songs/ poetry/ visuals 2. *Research collaborations* including action research 3. *Co-organization of events* (webinar series, online lectures, conference, etc.) 4. *Advocacy for PeDaGoG*: Exploring the social media platform / writing a news piece about the diverse actors here (drumming some excitement about this group) 5. *COLLECTIVE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE PEDAGOG NETWORK *(This ideally should be our first focused output in a very short time. We need to set up a statement that new members can refer to) See you all there! Best, Upamanyu On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 10:43, Ashish Kothari <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: V. good idea. I am marking also Julia and Angging, the others to respond to the earlier mail, in csae they have ideas for themes. We could also look at the minutes of the previous meeting, where some follow up actions were decdied on, if we want to pick any of them up again ... I am copying Julia's notes from that meeting below. Also adding Vasna here who was helping coordinate that meeting. One immediate task is to reconstruct the repository of courses/materials/approaches that several members had contributed, and which we lost due to a fire in the server building that hosts the GTA website ... I am copying in Franco to ask if we were able to recover that. Else, we can rebuild it. Pallavi, can you make a proposal for these thematic groups that we can send out on the list in advance? thanks ashish (mail from Julia, 8 July 2020) Dear friends, Many thanks to all who could make it and join. It was a joy getting to know you more directly and starting to draft collaborative action! To keep everyone in the loop, we are sharing the discussion results. Please everyone - also and especially if you couldn’t be in the session - be invited to add your thoughts and ideas and build on it collectively. https://board.net/p/PeDAGoG_Networking <https://board.net/p/PeDAGoG_Networking> One important outcome of conversations is, that it would be fruitful to gather round in “working groups” around different topics and actions. We have started collecting some, but obviously the list is non-conclusive and can continuously be elaborated. Everyone is invited to add their names to the list of volunteers! _Three points on interaction we would like to highlight in particular:_ 1. People are welcome to invite others within their networks to join PEDAGOG - and maybe include a link for the mail address to subscribe 2. If people would prefer to remain anonymous on the public spaces, they can email Brandon to express their interest in particular groups and he can connect them. 3. The lesson from today is that everyone is welcome to initiate an activity, a meeting or a discussion in the network so please feel free to go ahead and suggest things! _Some immediate points on the next steps: _ 1. 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? 2. 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 3. 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 Keep in touch! Solidarity, Vasna, Brandon, Ashish, Julia