Thursday May 22nd

On Thursday May 22nd our professionals focus welcomes you!

What is the aim?

The event will enable professional conversations amongst educators and researchers involved with teaching and research around local and global inequalities.

What is the format?
Semi-structured professional conversations focusing on teaching and research to enable a rare opportunity for those of us involved in teaching about these issues to talk about and reflect on our practice.

How do I register?

Register with your lunch preferences here on our blog. Unfortunately participant numbers are extremely limited, so sign up today!

How do I know if this event is for me?

As practitioners, researchers and educators we often participate in interventions and activities to address inequalities but rarely get the space to reflect on these varied activities, the impact and our role.  This workshop will allow for space to ask:

·         How do people in this community, this place, conceptualise wisdom, learning and knowledge?

·         How are the values inherent in and propagated in various agendas shared by the majority of people whose lives are meant to be improved?

·         What development? What education for all? What and whose sustainable development? Whose human rights? Good governance for whom? And, most importantly, what and whose values underpin the conversations that we are involved in?

If you have ever wondered about these points and more, this day is for you!  This workshop offers an opportunity for you to explore these concepts on a deeper level with your fellow practitioners and guest facilitators with exciting experiences and research on this topic.  We welcome all participants with a wide range of experience to come along and share in the process of addressing local and global inequalities. 

What should I expect?

First off this workshop is for you! When you register we will ask you to share your expectations and learning needs and we will do our best to accommodate. You will leave this workshop with hands on practical things that can help you through offering of analyses and strategies focusing on public engagements, including educational initiatives.  Our fantastic facilitators will be discussing some of the following themes:

·         Liberal, neo-liberal and critical responses to self-implication

·         Addressing denial of complicity in harm

·         Engaging testimonies of trauma and multiply positioned perspectives

·         Grappling with political and existential dimensions of justice

·         Social accountability as ‘answerability’

·         Feasibility of education as ‘un-coercive re-arrangement of desires’