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<div>Dear PeDAGoG colleagues, <br>
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Hope everyone is going strong! After a long break, is it time to
try to reactivate PeDAGoG? We've had some wonderful posts and
discussions in the past (especially our online session last July),
and there were interesting activities being proposed. But since
then, the list has not been particularly active (though some of you
have posted v. interesting material), and this makes us wonder about
the limitations we face ... and again, a question I'd asked in
mid-2020, whether this network is playing a useful role? At that
time, many of you responded with an enthusiastic 'yes', and Julia
pegged our first (and so far only) online discussion. Several
(mostly) silent months later, we need to ask this qs again ... maybe
with these two qs: <br>
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<div>1. Firstly, it would be good to know the things people have
been engaging with over the past few months, relevant to PeDAGoG.
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<div>2. Second, what are some of the activities that we would like
to see happen within the PeDAGoG group? </div>
<div>There were a lot of interesting proposals to collaborate (on
articles, summer schools, learning materials), <span style="color:rgb(46,51,56);white-space:pre-wrap">Collaborative teaching, </span><span style="color:rgb(46,51,56);white-space:pre-wrap">bridging community-based educational spaces and Universities, hosting </span>online
events etc (see below). It would be really interesting to try and
actualise some of these activities, possibly in smaller working
groups. Maybe we could start a monthly (or every 2 months) online
session of sharing interesting methods/courses/approaches? What do
you think? <br>
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<div>A sad update: We have (most probably) lost the drive containing
the collection of our courses/methods/pedagogies to a fire in one
of our server rooms. We're still trying to work out whether we can
retrieve it. If not, we will request those of you who had posted
on it, to repost ... we'll send around another link for this. <br>
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<div>However, the PeDAGoG reading list survives! in case people
would like to revisit and update it: <a
href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/pedagog-readinglist-keep"
target="_blank">https://pad.riseup.net/p/pedagog-readinglist-keep</a></div>
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<div>Also,
I want to introduce Upamanyu (copied here), who has recently
joined us at Kalpavriksh, and will be facilitating activities on
the group moving forward (many thanks to Brandon who was doing it
earlier) ... if we do collectively feel we want to keep PeDAGoG
alive! <br>
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<div><b>Pl. reply to full list if you have something you'd like to
share with all ... if there is a message only for me/Upamanyu,
pl. write back directly to us only. </b><br>
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<div>thanks, and here is hoping this 2nd revival will be more
long-lasting and meaningful :) <br>
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<div>ashish <br>
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<div><b>Follow-up points listed at online discussion held in July
2020</b>, in case people would like to revisit what we had come
up with:</div>
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<ol style="margin-top:0cm" type="A" start="1">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">STRUCTURE AND ORGANISING</li>
</ol>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Organising the communication and
sharing in the PEDAGOG space so that material is accessible
and not overwhelming the list</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">social-media presence?</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Series of events where we share the
approaches we are taking - webinar series from PEDAGOG?</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Think about what gaps (geographical,
thematic) exist and could be filled (e.g., currently lack of
members from Africa)?</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Creating a map of our expertise -
create a visual tool with themes that concern this group -
overlapping circles?</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Can some of us find institutional
backing, funds?</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"> B. PEDAGOGIC AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING
ACTIVITIES:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:18pt"> Potential to
develop sub-groups on the following as a start:</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Feminism and political ecology</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Teaching exchange through zoom
co-teaching</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Collaborative journal article
writing</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Collaboration on Masters education
and exchange and summer schools</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Youth activist-research outside of
mainstream academic structures <br>
</li>
</ul>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" type="A" start="3">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">COLLECTIVE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF
THE PEDAGOG NETWORK</li>
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<li> Ethics and values of PeDAGoG</li>
</ul>
<p>We need a statement on these for the kinds of transformations
we want in society, the kind of academics/learning/teaching we
feel is 'right', and the ethics for our own internal functioning
of PeDAGoG as a network</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Suggestion: Small group of
volunteers to start a draft</li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt">Three levels that
might be important:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 1. Ethics of the transformations
we want in society - direction of the transformaiton</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:36pt">2.
Ethics of our own teaching and learning spaces</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;text-indent:36pt">3.
Ethics of the PEDAGOG network itself - open, inclusive,
non-hierarchical</p>
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