[PeDAGoG] Open Discussion and Updates (July 2020)

Thu Jul 2 16:59:44 CEST 2020

Dear Brandon:

Thank you so much for your email. Two days ago I sent an email as follows.
Hope you received it. In the previous email, I forgot to tell about account
registration. In order to use the full functionality of this website, such
as creating social groups and forums discussions, replying, submitting
posts, etc., online account registration in https://www.pedagogism.com/ is
needed. It is easy and takes less than a minute to get an account. If
someone has the issue of registration, thanks for letting me know. In
addition, do you want to set up a "PeDAGoG" Forum under the“Education For
Sustainable Development” Forums” or an independent "PeDAGoG" Forum
category?

Thank you so much.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Yuxin Hou

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From: Yuxin Hou <yuxinhou82 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:27 AM
Subject: About the Non-Profit Educational Social Networking Website (From
Yuxin Hou-Honorary Member of ICCA Consortium)
To: <gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>
Cc: Ashish Kothari <ashishkotharialternative at gmail.com>, Brandon Liu <
brandon.k.liu at gmail.com>

Dear All:

Hope this email finds all of you well. Thanks for inviting me to
"GTA-PeDAGoG" mailing list. I am an Honorary member of the ICCA Consortium.
It was my great honor to complete the both English summary and Chinese
version of “Analysis on ICCAs in the Region of Xinjiang” some years ago.
They are in the following links below. I received my PhD in Anthropology in
2012. Now, I am engaged in teaching and research at College of Staten
Island of the City University of New York.

https://www.iccaconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ICCAs-in-Xinjiang-en.pdf

https://www.iccaconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ICCAs-in-Xinjiang-ch.pdf

I built a website https://www.pedagogism.com This is a nonprofit social
networking website for educators, students, parents and general public to
share their pedagogies and concerns on education. It aims to promote
overall educational success for all and serve the public interests. On this
website, two of the forums categories that I create are “Education for
Sustainable Development Forums” and “Indigenous Education Forums”. It aims
to raise public awareness of the importance of education for sustainable
development and indigenous education, and also to encourage public
participation in the debate on this topic, thereby promoting sustainable
development and indigenous cultures, natural rights from an educational
perspective. Under the “Indigenous Education Forums”, I have also created "
Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) Forum" to make ICCAs and
its importance more widely known.

As a scholar of Anthropology and Sociology, I also pay close attention to
the research of Indigenous People. I have been committed to promoting the
economic, cultural and social development research of the indigenous
peoples.  In the study, I found that not only do indigenous students face
many challenges in their study, but also the whole education system lacks
relevant courses on aboriginal culture, such as teaching in aboriginal
languages, teaching on aboriginal cultural heritage, history and tradition,
etc.  The lack of this kind of education has further exacerbated the
general public’s lack of understanding of aboriginal culture. According to
relevant research, every 14 days an aboriginal language disappears from the
earth, which is not only the death of language but also the end of
culture.  We lack a common platform for communication, so on the website I
have set up “Indigenous Education “Forms. One of the important purposes is
to arouse public attention to the history, language, culture and nature
protection of indigenous people by participating online forums or group
discussions, at the same time, it is also aimed at promoting the education
department to fully integrate indigenous education into different stages of
education in order to achieve the goal of protecting the indigenous culture
from the public basis.

With the progress of human civilization, anthropocentrism is continuously
destroying the sustainable development of mankind. This kind of destructive
behavior includes excessive consumption of natural and animal resources,
social inequality, improper waste management, global poverty, etc. Although
many scholars, government agencies, non-profit organizations and other
agencies have invested a lot of energy to study the coping strategies or
formulate relevant policies, the effect is not as we wish.  What are the
underlying reasons behind this?  The lack of sustainable education in our
modern education system is an important reason, and sustainable education
should run through every stage of education. It should have the same status
as basic courses and become a compulsory subject in education. This is an
important reason for this website to set up “Education for Sustainable
Development” forums. It is hoped that through active discussions of the
general public, the all-round development of sustainable education will be
promoted.

I think the “Education for Sustainable Development Forums” and “Indigenous
Education Forums” is important for promoting sustainability and the
protection of the cultural and natural rights of indigenous people. It
would be very important to get more people involved. This website is easy
to use and you are able to create unlimited social groups and forum
discussions, comment as well as submit post. The functions include Member
Profile, Social Groups, Forum Discussion, Private Messaging, Private
Community, User Invites, Network Search, Activity Feeds, Album and Media,
Events, Notifications, Activity Privacy Options and more.

Welcome to use the two forums on this website as the platform to promote
the development of sustainable and indigenous education. In the meantime,
if you think there are some topics worth setting up as new forums category
or subforums, thanks for letting me know and I would like to discuss it
with you.

I found “PeDaGoG” is a very important initiative. Do you want me to set up
a Forum under the “Education For Sustainable Development” Forums” or a new
Forum category called "PeDaGoG Forums". For the latter, it can include more
sub-forums under the "PeDaGoG Forums". If it is the latter, please let me
know the "Subforums" titles that you want. I think this can be a great base
for the "PeDaGoG" group to discuss online. Through it, more people across
the world will get to know "PeDaGoG" as well. I am looking forward to
hearing from your ideas.

For the website, please visit https://www.pedagogism.com

About me, please visit https://www.yuxinhou.com

If you have any issues with viewing the website or other questions, thanks
for letting me know.

Best,

Yuxin Hou
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 12:41 PM Brandon Liu <brandon.k.liu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear PeDAGoG community,
>
> Welcome to all the new members who have joined! We would love to have you
> introduce yourselves to the group if you haven't already.
>
> At the beginning of each month, I send out an email for "open discussion
> and updates" as a way to invite everyone to share something that's on their
> mind with the group. It could be to initiate discussion on a topic or share
> recent updates from one's own work. Feel free to reply directly to this
> email or start a new thread. Anything relating to alternative teaching and
> learning experiences, materials, tools, and perspectives relating to the
> themes of post-development, broadly understood, would be most welcome.
>
> Best,
> Brandon
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