<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Brandon:</div><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="https://www.pedagogism.com/">https://www.pedagogism.com/</a> 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? </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much. </div><div><br></div><div>I am looking forward to hearing from you. </div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div><br></div><div>Yuxin Hou </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Yuxin Hou</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:yuxinhou82@gmail.com">yuxinhou82@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:27 AM<br>Subject: About the Non-Profit Educational Social Networking Website (From Yuxin Hou-Honorary Member of ICCA Consortium)<br>To: <<a href="mailto:gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org">gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org</a>><br>Cc: Ashish Kothari <<a href="mailto:ashishkotharialternative@gmail.com">ashishkotharialternative@gmail.com</a>>, Brandon Liu <<a href="mailto:brandon.k.liu@gmail.com">brandon.k.liu@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear All:</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.iccaconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ICCAs-in-Xinjiang-en.pdf" style="color:blue" target="_blank">https://www.iccaconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ICCAs-in-Xinjiang-en.pdf</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.iccaconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ICCAs-in-Xinjiang-ch.pdf" style="color:blue" target="_blank">https://www.iccaconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ICCAs-in-Xinjiang-ch.pdf</a></p>
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I built a website </span><a href="https://www.pedagogism.com" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">https://www.pedagogism.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> 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.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">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. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">For the website, please
visit </span><a href="https://www.pedagogism.com" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://www.pedagogism.com</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">About me, please visit </span><a href="https://www.yuxinhou.com" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://www.yuxinhou.com</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">If you have any issues
with viewing the website or other questions, thanks for letting me know. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Best, </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Yuxin Hou </span></p></div></div></div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aeXV4aW5ob3U4MkBnbWFpbC5jb20%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=aca626c3-dc70-4df0-98fe-0fda2355d58b"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 12:41 PM Brandon Liu <<a href="mailto:brandon.k.liu@gmail.com">brandon.k.liu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear PeDAGoG community,</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Brandon<br></div></div>
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