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<p>Dear friends, a gentle reminder about tomorrow's meeting, see
agenda in Upamanyu's mail below. We hope you can all join (except
some who have said the time is not suitable for them, sorry about
that). <br>
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<p>See you tomorrow, 2 pm GMT! (link below) <br>
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<p>Do people need translation (e.g. Eng to Spanish)? If so, pl. let
us know, we can set up the interpretation room, and will ahve to
request for volunteers to do the translation! <br>
</p>
<p>Ashish <br>
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<p>Topic: Reactivating PeDAGoG<br>
Time: Jun 6, 2021 02:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time<br>
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<td>Re: [PeDAGoG] Reactivating PeDAGoG - Online Discussion
on 6th June, 2 PM GMT</td>
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<td>Wed, 2 Jun 2021 16:28:08 +0530</td>
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<td>Upamanyu Das <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:upamanyu.das5@gmail.com"><upamanyu.das5@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td>PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group
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<div>Dear PeDAGoG colleagues,</div>
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<div>For the upcoming online meeting on 6th June 2 PM GMT, we
have crowd-sourced ideas for specific themes that we can work
on. This will be done using moderated breakout rooms that can
have a sharp focus on getting the group to think of short term
deliverables. A few PeDAGoG colleagues have volunteered to
help moderate these sessions! :)</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Please do go through the thematic points, and let us know
if there are any additional points you would like to add.
Depending on the overall turnout, we can divide/club together
certain themes.</div>
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<div>Here are themes that we can work upon in this meeting:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font
color="#000000">1. </font><b><font color="#000000">Pedagogic
and knowledge sharing to build and strengthen the
repository of materials</font><br>
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</b></div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This is a
broad theme and I can be subdivided into (say) :</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1 a) Dynamic
and updated <b>reading list</b> on key aspects to be created
and maintained on a server.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1 b) Curating
and maintaining a <b>database of existing course documents</b> related
to PeDaGoG teaching- in and outside of university teaching
(even visually on a world map to see where all are we
teaching/researching/etc in varied ways would be exciting!)<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">1 c) Building
a <b>repository of classroom resources</b> apart from
academic readings such as films/ songs/ poetry/ visuals <br>
<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2. <b>Research collaborations</b> including
action research<br>
<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">3. <b>Co-organization
of events</b> (webinar series, online lectures,
conference, etc.)<br>
<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">4. <b>Advocacy
for PeDaGoG</b>: Exploring the social media platform /
writing a news piece about the diverse actors here (drumming
some excitement about this group)<br>
<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">5. <b>COLLECTIVE
VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE PEDAGOG NETWORK </b>(This
ideally should be our first focused output in a very short
time. We need to set up a statement that new members can
refer to)<br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">See you all
there!</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best, </div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Upamanyu</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 10:43,
Ashish Kothari <<a href="mailto:ashishkothari@riseup.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">ashishkothari@riseup.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<p>V. good idea. I am marking also Julia and Angging, the
others to respond to the earlier mail, in csae they have
ideas for themes. We could also look at the minutes of the
previous meeting, where some follow up actions were
decdied on, if we want to pick any of them up again ... I
am copying Julia's notes from that meeting below. Also
adding Vasna here who was helping coordinate that meeting.
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<p>One immediate task is to reconstruct the repository of
courses/materials/approaches that several members had
contributed, and which we lost due to a fire in the server
building that hosts the GTA website ... I am copying in
Franco to ask if we were able to recover that. Else, we
can rebuild it. <br>
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<p>Pallavi, can you make a proposal for these thematic
groups that we can send out on the list in advance? <br>
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<p>thanks <br>
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<p>ashish <br>
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<p>(mail from Julia, 8 July 2020)<br>
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<p>Dear friends, Many thanks to all who could make it and
join. It was a joy getting to know you more directly and
starting to draft collaborative action! <br>
</p>
To keep everyone in the loop, we are sharing the discussion
results. <br>
Please everyone - also and especially if you couldn’t be in
the session - be invited to add your thoughts and ideas and
build on it collectively. <a
href="https://board.net/p/PeDAGoG_Networking"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://board.net/p/PeDAGoG_Networking</a>
<br>
One important outcome of conversations is, that it would be
fruitful to gather round in “working groups” around
different topics and actions. We have started collecting
some, but obviously the list is non-conclusive and can
continuously be elaborated. Everyone is invited to add their
names to the list of volunteers! <br>
<br>
<u>Three points on interaction we would like to highlight in
particular:</u> <br>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" type="1" start="1">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">People are welcome to invite
others within their networks to join PEDAGOG - and maybe
include a link for the mail address to subscribe</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">If people would prefer to
remain anonymous on the public spaces, they can email
Brandon to express their interest in particular groups
and he can connect them.</li>
<li style="margin-left:0cm">The lesson from today is that
everyone is welcome to initiate an activity, a meeting
or a discussion in the network so please feel free to go
ahead and suggest things!</li>
</ol>
<u>Some immediate points on the next steps: </u><br>
<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>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" type="A" start="2">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">PEDAGOGIC AND KNOWLEDGE
SHARING ACTIVITIES:</li>
</ol>
Potential to develop sub-groups on the following as a start:<br>
<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</li>
</ul>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" type="A" start="3">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">COLLECTIVE VALUES AND
PRINCIPLES OF THE PEDAGOG NETWORK <br>
</li>
</ol>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Ethics and values of PeDAGoG </li>
</ul>
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 <br>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li style="margin-left:0cm">Suggestion: Small group of
volunteers to start a draft</li>
</ul>
Three levels that might be important:<br>
1. Ethics of the transformations we want in society -
direction of the transformaiton<br>
2. Ethics of our own teaching and learning spaces<br>
3. Ethics of the PEDAGOG network itself - open, inclusive,
non-hierarchical<br>
Keep in touch!<br>
Solidarity, Vasna, Brandon, Ashish, Julia</div>
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