[PeDAGoG] Open Discussion and Updates (July 2020)

[Katerina Brandes]

Hi everyone,

yes, thank you Bardon for inviting us to introduce ourselves :).

My name is Katerina and I find it very hard to introduce myself.  But
why I joined this network is that I am super interested in alternative
teaching methodologies and trying to bring them into the classes that I
am involved in - which are few, but let's see where the future brings
me. I am involved in adult education on postdevelopment as a critique of
development, critique of development cooperation, and alternatives to
both (including degrowth). I recently used the book the pluriverse
during class to inspire students about alternatives to development, they
really liked it :). I am neither a PhD, nor affiliated as a researcher
at a university, I am just involved here and there, inside and outside
university. Actually I believe rather in the system of ecoversities than
universities, and still I am taking part inside and outside the system.
Just the typical development cooperation system itself I decided to keep
away from. I am active in a very young theater collective, where we
bring together "mainstream scientific facts" and emotional embodied
positionalities. We are hoping to bring theater more into the academic
field or the adademia more out engaged with the grassroots. I am excited
about non-rational teaching methods in (university) classes (including
co-creative approaches, theater methods, connecting with personal
emotional experiences, etc.) and as such pushing the boundaries of what
is possible.

Looking forward to inspiring each other with this mailing list to push
the boundaries even further.

Kind greetings,

Katerina


On 01.07.2020 20:33, Irene Sotiropoulou wrote:
> Hello everyone, 
>
> I am very happy to be a member of the PeDAGoG community. 
>
> Brandon, thank you so much for your message and the advice. 
>
> My name is Irene and at the moment I am working as a researcher at the
> Energy and Environment Institute of the University of Hull, UK. 
> My specialty is heterodox economics, with an emphasis on social and
> solidarity economy, feminist economics, ecological economics,
> decolonial economics, heterodox finance and non-monetary economies,
> sharing practices, economics of the commons, grassroots economics. In
> Hull I do research about the local farmers' markets. 
>
> Some days ago i added into the Pedagog pad a link to teaching material
> i have
> online https://hull.academia.edu/IreneSotiropoulou/Teaching-Documents.
> Most of it is in English. On each document there is information about
> the level of teaching it is related to and the place/institution where
> the teaching took place. In case I will be teaching next year, I will
> be adding more material. If you have feedback or you need any further
> information about those documents, please, feel free to contact me. 
>
> Thank you very much. I am very glad to be among you. 
> Best regards, 
> Irene
>
>
> Στις Τετ, 1 Ιουλ 2020 στις 5:41 μ.μ., ο/η Brandon Liu
> <brandon.k.liu at gmail.com <mailto:brandon.k.liu at gmail.com>> έγραψε:
>
>     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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