SEEDS for Change Learning Without Borders Initiative


NEURODIVERGENT WORLDS CIRCLE (4 sessions only)

Sep 19, Oct 3, Oct 24, Nov 14
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm (EST time)

With: Clelia O. Rodriguez
Contribution: Non-monetary. Participants will receive actionable items instead as payment.

Registration:
https://tinyurl.com/NeuroDivergency

Requirements:

Politicized listening, imagination, creativity, thirst for learning beyond grades, deadlines and boxed-in colonialist/patriarchal expectations, heart fluidity, and hunger for reality and not just games.

The Learning Without Borders Initiative has been a global collective teaching and learning space since the winter of 2020. The Seven Teaching Principles of the Anishinabek people ground every session and guide the inquisitorial journey of interdisciplinary co-learners of all backgrounds. Some of the key resulting questions provide a framework to interrogate our relationships, responsibilities, accountability, and ways to relate to the land and the body: “Who are you without colonialism?” “Who Are you without the patriarchy,” “How do you read beyond the binary,” “Where is colonialism located in your body,” “How do you write beyond the binary,” “How do you read math?” As stewards of Ancestral Knowledge, we are intentionally integrating radical, innovative, transformational, creative and manifesting ways of learning that preceded immemorial time. The courses at OISE that were included are: Anti-Discriminatory Education, Settler Colonialism and Pedagogies of liberation, Indigenous Experiences of Racism in Canada, and Decolonization in Education, Popular Education and Social Action.

This work has been made possible thanks to the participating, partnering and financial support of the Center for Studies on Sustainable Luxury and Sustainable Textile Center in Argentina, DISE Collective, the Department of Modern Languages at Mount Allison University, the Department of the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), the Global Classroom at the University of Toronto, the bell hooks Center at Berea College, the Carousel Collective, Framingham State University, Unboxing Accessibility, University of Management and Technology Pakistan, Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Toronto Scarborough, the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, the Bilingual & Literacy Studies Department and the Mexican American Studies (MAS) at the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, the Indigenous Educational Research Centre and the Deeping Knowledge Project (OISE) and York University.

Learning Without Borders Guest Speakers 2020-2024