Knowledge And The Production Of Learning For Emancipatory Practice
Wed, May 04
|Online Session
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM


Time & Location
May 04, 2022, 10:30 AM EDT
Online Session
About the Event
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83292363483?pwd=dVpOb2xQS1hoS3BwTjV3UkcwK2pXUT09
As we face the multiple crises of the current moment, knowledge is vital if we are to find our way towards a more sustainable world. To date, much of knowledge production has been in the hegemonic domain of narrow western academic institutions. This ignores the epistemes of knowledge that exist outside of modern science and narrows the idea of learning to what happens in formal classrooms. This session takes the starting point that learning and knowledge production can be diverse processes using a multiplicity of methods and learning spaces. In this session, we will introduce some of the different approaches and then have a deliberative discussion about how different types of learning & critical pedagogies and knowledge can be lifted to support emancipatory praxis. The session will focus more on the doing of such pedagogies and how we can learn and share with each other as we move out of…
