Dear PeDAGoG colleagues, Below are the minutes of the meeting held yesterday. For those who couldn't attend, please read through the next steps charted out by the various working groups and feel free to volunteer wherever you can help. - *Check ins* - Angging: from UPCIDS Alt Dev team - Adrian Schegel: Masters student from Germany working on post-colonial studies - Sujit Sinha: Ex-professor, living utopian, writing and translating texts into Bengali for grassroots movements as well as working on audio visual materials. - Renata Amorim: Phd student from Brazil, working with grassroots movements, connected with the eco village network, looking to find ways to engage and collaborate with the group. - Irene: Researcher in non-capitalist ecologically sustainable economics - Sonali Sathaye: Freelance educator. Alternative education linked to alternative economics is an area of interest. Working on a course on Climate Change for school students. - Rama Mohana: Faculty at IIM Ahmedabad, part of this group largely to learn about alternative education and contribute where possible. - Ashish: works with Kalpariksh, Vikalp Sangam, Global Tapestry of Alternatives. - Upamanyu: KV, VS, GTA - Vasna: Lund University, Sweden, GTA Core, WOmin - Arvin: UPCIDS Alt Dev, Community organiser in urban poor community. *Updates from working groups Working Group 1: Pedagogic and knowledge sharing to build and strengthen repositories of materials* - The group made a list of the kind of materials people tend to share on Pedagog. The next question is where to save the materials. - One option is to use the GTA platform. - Start an independent website - Shared cloud drive - Funds are required, a coordinator is necessary. *Comments * - Ashish: Easy access is the question. A quick call over the next couple of weeks can help in moving forward. Franco (GTA), Pallav (RED) can help. Flarum is another possibility. - Ashish: Another question is whether the space would be passive or interactive. Would it also require an internal and external section? - Upamanyu: Moodle is an option to look into—free open source learning management system *Working Group 2: Research collaborations and action research * - A database about the members could be a starting point/referral point to further collaborations. A Google form can be sent out to the group. - Melanie Bush can help in this group with processing the data *Comments* - Sonali: Finding out what everyone is doing on the network could be quite overwhelming. It would be nice to have a framework to process that information. - Ashish: This would be very valuable. A questionnaire should go out soon. In order to put the information within a framework, we can create drop down menus (MCQs). *Working Group 3: Co-organization of events (inward-facing)* - Along similar lines to Group 2, and there is more work/thinking required. *Working Group 5: Collective Values and Principles of the PeDAGoG network* - Following document has been worked upon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17XEzP8uyXYlbMS_RF9tJ7GOB-M1MpOhs/edit?us... *Comments* - Sujit: Many people in this group are part of institutions which might not be in line with PEDAGOG’s ethics. - Vasna: Many of us are restricted by our institutions, but it is important to have these explicit guiding principles within these alternative spaces. - Ashish: Agreeing with Vasna, as one of the reasons behind PEDAGOG was to create an aspirational space, to subtly push and learn from each other. These ethics can be a guide to what could be. - Rama: These ethics can be a reference while critiquing the institutional constraints faced by many of us. - Ashish: the group can also play the role of advocacy such as with statements of solidarity. - Sonali: On Ashish’s point of solidarity, it can be hypocritical to advocate for anti-capitalist ideas while having comfortable jobs. This network can play a role in promoting alternative livelihoods and real alternatives. - Ashish: PEDAGOG is also supposed to challenge our ‘comfortable’ notions, such as finding a balance between lack of remuneration, following our interests, and well-paying jobs. - Irene: There is an imbalance of contributions within this group, there may be a need to push people further and become more strict with the members who don't contribute. - Ashish: Agreeing with the point made by Irene, one view can be to look at the network as a long term project instead of a short term project. There is progress being made by some working groups. *Moving Forward* - *Group 1* will look to hold a meeting in the coming month. Call for volunteers to be sent out to the larger group for help. Ashish will try to loop Franco and Pallav in. - *Group 2* is working on a questionnaire for members, Melanie will also assist the group. - *Group 5* has already put together the ethics framework. Another attempt can be made to send it out for comments. If there are no comments, then we can accept this as a final document for now. *Next Meeting:* 1,2,4,5,6 Feb as possible next dates. Upamanyu will send out a Doodle Poll soon. On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 1:34 PM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear PeDAGoG colleagues, a gentle reminder about today's meeting ... do join if you can! See agenda and link below.

If anyone would like to moderate this, pl. do volunteer ... you can write back to me, not full list,

thanks!

ashish On 27/11/21 5:43 pm, Upamanyu Das wrote:

Dear PeDAGoG colleagues,

Hope you're all doing well!

We will be hosting the next online discussion of the PeGAGoG group on 16th Dec 2021 at 2 PM GMT.

The broad agenda of the discussion is as follows: 1. Check-ins 2. Update by the working groups - including follow up actions/support required by the groups 3. Plans for the upcoming year - including a discussion on how to make the group more active

Here's the link for the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2598651679

This will be a follow-up on the meeting held in June this year. You can access the key points from the previous meeting here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X4p8-Lf6CDDIxyzs8Jc5xx6mb3fB3bSDYsYPbZmJ...

Lastly, it would be nice if the different working groups formed in the previous meet could provide a short report of their progress to the larger group before the meeting (particularly the working groups on research possibilities and inward-facing events), though we will explore this further during the meeting itself.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Best, Upamanyu

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