Starting this February 27, we are organizing a monthly reading series on the theme of Radical Pedagogies.
Some of the questions we are considering through this series include: What does it mean to be a place of education in the community? Where do we stand and from whom do we learn? How do traditional models of education reinforce state/hierarchical structures of authority and nationalism? Can radical pedagogies help us reimagine our relationships with ourselves and those we come in contact with?
The discussion meeting will be held on the last Tuesday of every month at 6 pm at Spartacus Books and online (link)
Text for February, 2024:
“The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by Paulo Freire, Chapter 2 (link to reading)
Other Potential Texts:
“You Can’t Reform Things Built to Harm” and “We Need More Pedagogy in our Movements” – Nerd Teacher
Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
“Poetry and Grammar” by Gertrude Stein
“Uncle’s Four Laws” youtube video – Sylvia McAdam
“Land Speaking” – Jeanette Armstrong
“The University and the Undercommons” from The Undercommons – Fred Moten and Stefano Harney
“The Promise of Deschooling” – Matt Hern
BURNITALLDOWN – Yerbamala Collective
“To Walk Questioning: Zapatismo, the Radical Imagination, and a Transnational Pedagogy of Liberation” – Alex Khasnabish
“That Teaching is Impossible” – Alejandro de Acosta
Book 6 Chapter 8 “Of National Education” from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice – William Godwin
“The False Principle of our Education” – Max Stirner