Teaching for Social Justice: Spaces for Radical EducationThis workshop is designed to bring together radical educators working within a variety of institutional and organizational settings. Through panel presentations and participant discussion groups, we will facilitate a dialog on the relationships between educating, organizing, and movement-building, as well as on the obstacles and advantages of “teaching for social justice” within different kinds of educational institutions. Panel presentations will address topics including curriculum development, popular education pedagogy, free schools, and social justice in the college classroom. Following panel presentations, participants will form smaller discussion groups based on shared interests and strategic concerns. Our goal is to create a space for educators to share resources, think strategically, build professional and activist networks, and develop a broader vision for social justice education. From the perspectives of our different types of educational projects, we will grapple with the multiple tensions that emerge from trying to live, work, learn, and organize within and across them. How can we negotiate the tensions between working, on the one hand, with radical movements and popular education projects that traverse the boundaries of the dominant educational institutions and that seek to change those institutions, while, on the other hand, working within those institutions without becoming of them? This workshop will provide a forum for discussing such questions in relation to the particular contexts of our own projects, and for learning from each other’s tactics, strategies, and visions.
Organizing Against Student DebtThis workshop will mobilize participants to join a network of militant research around debt-abolition, particularly student debt. We will work toward organizing a debt-abolition network and a global day of action against student debt.
We are everyday involved in struggles and movements all around the world against the privatization of the university, the precaritization of work, the new enclosures of our knowledge(s), and for the reappropriation of our commonwealth.
We choose debt as the center of our organizing because, it is becoming the main instrument of enclosure of our social wealth: education, knowledge, access to healthy food, housing and healthcare. The recent financial crisis has only accelerated this process. Debt illegitimately reduces our livelihoods. Across the world, the predatory lending strategies targeted at student populations have created a generation of students whose futures are indentured to the banks. We reject a system that produces the windfall profits for the financial industry at the expense of our education and our lives.
Enseñando por Justicia Social: Espacios para Educación RadicalThis workshop is designed to bring together radical educators working within a variety of institutional and organizational settings. Through panel presentations and participant discussion groups, we will facilitate a dialog on the relationships between educating, organizing, and movement-building, as well as on the obstacles and advantages of “teaching for social justice” within different kinds of educational institutions. Panel presentations will address topics including curriculum development, popular education pedagogy, free schools, and social justice in the college classroom. Following panel presentations, participants will form smaller discussion groups based on shared interests and strategic concerns. Our goal is to create a space for educators to share resources, think strategically, build professional and activist networks, and develop a broader vision for social justice education. From the perspectives of our different types of educational projects, we will grapple with the multiple tensions that emerge from trying to live, work, learn, and organize within and across them. How can we negotiate the tensions between working, on the one hand, with radical movements and popular education projects that traverse the boundaries of the dominant educational institutions and that seek to change those institutions, while, on the other hand, working within those institutions without becoming of them? This workshop will provide a forum for discussing such questions in relation to the particular contexts of our own projects, and for learning from each other’s tactics, strategies, and visions.
Organizando en contra de las deudas estudiantilesThis workshop will mobilize participants to join a network of militant research around debt-abolition, particularly student debt. We will work toward organizing a debt-abolition network and a global day of action against student debt.
We are everyday involved in struggles and movements all around the world against the privatization of the university, the precaritization of work, the new enclosures of our knowledge(s), and for the reappropriation of our commonwealth.
We choose debt as the center of our organizing because, it is becoming the main instrument of enclosure of our social wealth: education, knowledge, access to healthy food, housing and healthcare. The recent financial crisis has only accelerated this process. Debt illegitimately reduces our livelihoods. Across the world, the predatory lending strategies targeted at student populations have created a generation of students whose futures are indentured to the banks. We reject a system that produces the windfall profits for the financial industry at the expense of our education and our lives.