Το Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου (ΑΠΚΥ) και το Μεταπτυχιακό Πρόγραμμα Σπουδών «Επιστήμες της Αγωγής» έχουν την τιμή να φιλοξενούν την εβδομάδα 9-13 Μαΐου 2022 τη Dr Sharon Stein και τη Dr Petra Mikulan, καθηγήτριες του Τμήματος Επιστημών της Αγωγής του University of British Columbia (UBC). Στο πλαίσιο της εν λόγω επίσκεψης, η οποία πραγματοποιείται με χρηματοδότηση του προγράμματος Erasmus+ International Mobility, διοργανώνονται δύο δημόσιες ομιλίες σε κοινωνικά και πολιτικά ζητήματα της εκπαίδευσης.

Η δημόσια ομιλία της Dr Stein, Επίκουρης Καθηγήτριας με ερευνητικά ενδιαφέροντα που επικεντρώνονται σε θέματα «αποαποικιοποίησης» στην τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση, έχει θέμα «Pedagogies for Confronting Social and Ecological Challenges» και θα λάβει χώρα την Τετάρτη 11 Μαΐου 2022 στις 18:00.

Για διά ζώσης συμμετοχή: Αίθουσα συνεδριάσεων του 4^ου ορόφου του κεντρικού κτιρίου του Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου στα Λατσιά (Λεωφόρος Γιάννου Κρανιδιώτη 33, 2220 Λατσιά, Λευκωσία).

Σύνδεσμος τηλε-παρακολούθησης: https://bit.ly/37cIHbA

Πιστοποιητικά παρακολούθησης θα σταλούν σε όλους/ες τους/τις συμμετέχοντες/ουσες, που θα πραγματοποιήσουν εγγραφή στον σύνδεσμο: https://bit.ly/3kDsM9h

Σύντομη περίληψη:

This seminar will provide an overview of Dr. Stein's research about higher education, in particular her collaborative work as part of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Research Collective. While universities often frame themselves as best positioned to prepare young people to address contemporary social and ecological challenges, most were founded and developed in a very different context than the present, and as such, they are not necessarily equipped to prepare students to face today’s challenges in socially relevant and accountable ways. Universities rarely create spaces for conversations that do not offer guaranteed hope, feel-good solutions, and the promise of a “better future.” The work of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures arts/research collective seeks to prepare people to address difficult questions at the intersections of (un)sustainability and systemic colonial violence. In our analyses, the root cause of both these systemic harms is not inefficient practices, irrational policies, or a lack of information, but rather a modern/colonial habit-of-being that is premised on infinite consumption on a finite planet. The intellectual frames of reference, affective landscapes, and relational sensibilities of universities in the global north have been developed within the context of this enduring global colonial system. These intellectual, affective, and relational patterns offer promises of comfort, certainty and control, but the cost of these patterns to systemically marginalized populations and the planet itself is generally invisibilized. In order to denaturalize these patterns and draw attention to the fact that they are sustained at others’ expense, we offer a pedagogical approach rooted in critical systems literacy that invites people to develop the capacities and stamina to stay with what is difficult and unsettling, so that we might learn to live together differently on a finite planet. In this seminar, Dr. Stein will review the intellectual scaffolding of the work of the collective, as well as invite faculty and students to experience some of the collective's embodied educational experiments.

Σύντομο βιογραφικό:

Dr. Sharon Stein is Assistant Professor of the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia (Columbia). Her research brings critical and decolonial perspectives to the study and practice of internationalization, decolonization, and sustainability in higher education. Through her work, she seek to interrupt common colonial patterns of educational engagement, including: uneven, paternalistic, and extractive relationships between dominant and marginalized communities; simplistic solutions to complex problems; and ethnocentric imaginaries of justice, responsibility, and change. In her work on higher education and beyond, she emphasizes both the importance and the difficulty of addressing the interrelated ecological, cognitive, affective, relational, political and economic dimensions of local and global (in)justice.