[PeDAGoG] Fwd: Solidarity in Action - Forum Event 3, 15th April 2021 [RSVP]

[Ashish Kothari]

Friends, this may be of interest,

ashish



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Subject: 	Solidarity in Action - Forum Event 3, 15th April 2021 [RSVP]
Date: 	Thu, 8 Apr 2021 09:35:41 +0100
From: 	Solidarity in Action Network <solidarityinactionnetwork at gmail.com>
To: 	Solidarity in Action Network <solidarityinactionnetwork at gmail.com>



Dear All,

You are warmly invited to the 3rd online Forum of the international 
*Solidarity in Action Network* on Thursday 15th April 2021, 2-5pm GMT 
(UK time).


The theme is *'The Pedagogy of Solidarity in Two Provocations'.*
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  * /*The Coloniality of Solidarity* - Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández/

Solidarity figures prominently in educational projects committed to 
social change. Yet what precisely solidarity entails, for whom, doing 
what, and under what conditions is usually only vaguely defined and 
often in contradictory terms, even when solidarity is a centrepiece of 
the work at hand. In this brief talk, Gaztambide-Fernández will unpack 
what the multifarious uses of the concept of solidarity reveal about the 
colonial and racist underpinnings of the concept and how these are 
revealed in contemporary uses. He will argue that without paying 
attention to its colonial and racist underpinnings, any project that 
invokes the concept of solidarity risks reissuing these logics.

/Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández is Professor of Curriculum & Pedagogy and 
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Curriculum Inquiry at the Ontario 
Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His 
research and scholarship are concerned with questions of symbolic 
boundaries and the dynamics of cultural production and processes of 
identification in educational contexts. His theoretical work focuses on 
the relationship between cultural production and solidarity./
//

  * /*How institutions (un)learn?: some ideas around issues of
    solidarity, community and pedagogy* - Javier Rodrigo/

This presentation will explain how to approach solidarity issues through 
pedagogical projects in Barcelona, Spain, by examining two particular, 
contrasting experiences. One, is in collaboration with a group of youth 
migrants, in the context of a memory museum. The other is a 
community-run theatre, based on participatory budgeting and direct 
democracy with special emphasis on community and intercultural criteria 
for programme development. Both of these examples are presented in order 
to raise the issue of the need for an institutional pedagogy and to 
raise a core question of cultural institutions: How do institutions 
(Un)learn?

/Javier Rodrigo is coordinator of Transductores 
<https://transductores.info/>, a platform about cultural politics, 
critical mediation, direct cultural democracy and experiments on 
governance and commons. See more of his writing here 
<https://independent.academia.edu/JavierRodrigo>./



*There will be an opportunity to question both speakers, before breaking 
into groups to tackle a series of particular challenges provided by the 
speakers.
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*Some reading in preparation for the Forum*

In advance of the 15th April, we request that, ideally, most people will 
have read at least one of the articles provided by Rubén A. 
Gaztambide-Fernández below. The first two are short and written for a 
popular audience, one in English and one in Spanish, and similar in 
content. The second one is a bit longer and more academic.

Here are the links:

  * Short piece about solidarity
    <https://theconversation.com/what-is-solidarity-during-coronavirus-and-always-its-more-than-were-all-in-this-together-135002> in
    English
  * Similar piece as above, but in Spanish
    <https://www.80grados.net/el-llamado-a-la-solidaridad/> for those
    who can read it and are interested
  * Longer and more academic piece, Decolonization and the Pedagogies of
    Solidarity
    <https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18633>


*RSVP*
We very much hope that as many participants as possible from the 
Solidarity in Action Network will be able to attend this event on 
*Thursday 15th April*. Please can you RSVP by *Tuesday 13th* to 
solidarityinactionnetwork at gmail.com 
<mailto:solidarityinactionnetwork at gmail.com> (or on the website) and you 
will then be sent a* calendar invitation*.

Looking forward to seeing you and our many new members there.

In solidarity,
Bernadette

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*/Solidarity in Action Network/*
e: SolidarityInActionNetwork at gmail.com 
<mailto:SolidarityInActionNetwork at gmail.com>
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