Co-leads Wyndham City Council and Melton City Council are excited to invite communities and organisations to register events for the second Global Learning Festival, set to occur online from 8-11 November 2021. Expressions of Interest are now open and events need to be free to the community, run between 8-11 November 2021 in any time zone globally, be held online and be linked to learning in some way.
You can register your event here, open until September 2021:
Hot House Community Projects have produced a fantastic series of podcasts showcasing the diverse and inspiring people who take action in local communities.
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Public Pedagogies Institute 2021 Seminar Series
Proposals are invited that address the theme of: Publicness
Last year PPI ran its first virtual seminar series. It was a resounding success! Each of the weekly 2 hour seminars provided an interactive session accompanied by readings and generated lively discussions. Our shared international experience of COVID has provoked the theme and context for our 2021 seminar series.
Our new COVID world brings new spaces of inquiry around theorizing ‘publicness’: who, where, and what “counts” as “public” or “publicness”? How might we consider publicness in the light of various forms of exposure, escape, invasion, intrusion, illumination, dissolution, and dissolving of the boundaries of public and private spheres?
Program Seminar series:
Times: 10.30am -12.30pm AEST
Dates:
Friday, October 8
Friday, October 15
Friday, October 22
Friday, October 29
Friday, November 5
Friday, November 12 (Plenary Session and Launch of PPI Journal)
Cost: A$120 full price, or A$60 concession
(free for students and unemployed; pay-forward will also operate)
Format: Zoom meeting hosted by Karen Charman Chairperson PPI
Proposal due date: June 30, 2021
Proposals are invited around the theme of ‘Publicness’. The abstract provides some threads which may be taken up in the series. The seminar topics are not, however, limited to these ideas around Publicness. Keeping in mind the series will be held via zoom, interactive presentations are particularly welcomed. It is requested that the proposal be limited to 800 words and accompanied by a brief synopsis of the proposed seminar agenda and at least 2 suggested pre-readings.
Please email proposals to Karen Charman: Karen.Charman@vu.edu.au
(Featured Image above: Hosier Lane, by Debbie Qadri)
Call for Papers: Journal of Public Pedagogies special issue
Apocalyptic Pedagogies: Rethinking Publics and Publicness in the Time of Apocalypse
Guest Edited by Jake Burdick & Jennifer A. Sandlin
This issue centers on the public in an historical moment that is characterized by the metaphor of exposure. Under the aegis of COVID-19, we have fled public spaces out of fear of exposure to the virus, and simultaneously, the nature of the public itself has been subject to an exposure more akin to that of photography. COVID, as well as the overlapping sociocultural pandemics of racism, austerity, and fascism, has shone a light into, through, and across the institutions that we hail as public; created the desire for new spaces of public discourse and pedagogies; exposed disturbingly racist and violent movements for ‘freedom’ that had formerly been mostly hidden from sight; and potentially has been revealed as an ultimately illusory construct. The public has been lauded, even fetishized, across the history of Western thought, from its inception as a site of purportedly democratic discourse in antiquity to contemporary social thought that hails it as a space set apart from a world all-but-swallowed by the ravenousness of privatism and late capitalism.
Read full call for papers and submission details here
Final submissions can be:
● full length articles (5,000 to 6,000 exclusive of references) that theoretically and/or empirically attend to understanding apocalyptic pedagogies, publics, and/or publicness (these will be double blind peer reviewed)
● short texts (1000 to 1500 words) that explicate a particular public or pedagogy of publicness
● photo essays with short descriptions/theorizations
Deadlines (updated):
● January 8, 2020: Proposal/expression of interest (250 words plus 50-word bio)
● February 1, 2021 authors will be notified of acceptance of their proposal
● May 1, 2021 final submissions due for blind peer review
As part of our 2020 seminar program a session was conducted by the Climate Change Education Network (CCEN) titled Learning about Location in a Climate of Change.
The following are some samples of the group poetry and other reflections that were created during the session and more can be viewed on the CCEN website.
The seminar was created and presented by CCEN members Bronwyn Sutton, Gen Blades, Meg Upton and Peta White for the Public Pedagogies Institute Online Seminar Series Public Pedagogies of Location.
For more information about the seminar please contact CCEN.
Thirsty
Thirsty for new possibilities
New elders to guide our way
Surrender to unmanicured dynamics
Out of our control
Land(E)scaping
Becoming, reclamation, resilience
The Human spirit
The Cactus spirit
The Virus spirit
The Earth spirit
No borders
One spirit
I noticed the absence of aircraft in the sky
Thirsty for normalcy but for somethings that are new
Waters are calm but impending feeling of
something will happen
Precariousness
Notion of human control is drastically changed
“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world” – Mary Oliver
A courtyard tree
A bunch of lemons
A miniature pony
A camping ground
A roughened barked tree
Ducks and masks
Coping strategies
Dissonance between Fahrenheit and Celsius
Dissonance between human and natural and human world
The natural world is still doing its great big thing
The fact that we are more contained means we may have moved back to a different rhythm
Changing scale, changing sense of time
We notice it more
Movement and connecting to space
Quietness of tone,
Reflective, taking time to pause, look and appreciate,
The current capacity of nature to continually regenerate?
Collage of pictures to illustrate temporality with word phrases to help speak to the images and highlight our theme of noticing.
This place was once burnt by grassfires
but now it’s grown back
Questions of life, death, sickness, & strength
The continuum of time – past, present and future.
Receding glaciers in Iceland – A constant and a change
Beauty that reminds me of home
This is a timeless desert in Namibia – out of time –
ever changing yet never changing
Bees collecting pollen and nectar in Spring
like they do every year at this time
The dead and the exchange of matter between states
More information about the session and examples of group work are available on the CCEN website.
The Public Pedagogies Institute is hosting a series of online seminars in place of our regular yearly conference. We are excited by the response to our call out for presentations addressing the theme of Public Pedagogies of Location.
Initially a response to the bushfires in Australia, this theme has taken on added meaning in light of our lived experience of COVID 19. As a result of the virus we are faced with our location. This can be understood in many different ways: our immediate physical surrounds, our neighbourhood, our digital world, our countries. We are all positioned in a space where the possibilities of what is to come are yet to be revealed. This seminar series will engage with Public Pedagogies of Location in ways that stimulate reflection, intellectually challenge us but importantly connect us.
Sessions will run Thursdays from 10.30am-12.30pm (AEST).
They will be run over the platform Zoom
Week 1 – October 1, 10.30am-12.30pm
Learning about Location in a Climate of Change
Bronwyn Sutton & Climate Change Education Network
Week 2 – October 8, 10.30am-12.30pm
Visual Considerations and Contemplations
Belinda MacGill
Week 3 – October 15, 10.30am-12.30pm
Narrative Panoramas: surfacing tacit knowledge through material translation and co-analysis of lived experience
Kelly Anderson
Week 4 – October 22, 10.30am-12.30pm
The Educative Agent and Authority in Public Pedagogy
Karen Charman and Mary Dixon
Week 5 – October 29, 10.30am-12.30pm
Gathering Ground: Building translocal place pedagogies through online/offline workshops
Kelly-Lee Hickey
Week 6 – November 5, 10.30am-12.30pm
Locations of Law or non Law, Peter Alsen
Week 7 – November 12, 10.30am-12.30pm
Plenary Session
Our annual conference will this year take place as a series of online seminars
Our original theme was provoked by the recent bush fires in Australia but now in light of us staying locally, this theme has new resonance.
Public Pedagogies of Location
We are excited by the response to our call out for presentations addressing the theme of Public Pedagogies of Location, which will this year be run as series of seminars in place of our regular yearly conference.
Initially a response to the bushfires in Australia this theme has taken on added meaning in light of our lived experience of COVID 19. As a result of the virus we are faced with our location. This can be understood in many different ways, our immediate physical surrounds, our neighbourhood, our digital world, our countries. We are all positioned in a space where the possibilities of what is to come are yet to be revealed. This seminar series will engage with Public Pedagogies of Location in ways that stimulate reflection, intellectually challenge us but importantly connect us.
Seminar Series
Each session will take place on a Thursday from 10.30am-12.30pm (AEST). The sessions will be run over Zoom
Week 1 – October 1, 10.30am-12.30pm
Learning about Location in a Climate of Change
Bronwyn Sutton & Climate Change Education Network
Week 2 – October 8, 10.30am-12.30pm
Visual Considerations and Contemplations
BelindaMacGill
Week 3 – October 15, 10.30am-12.30pm
Narrative Panoramas: surfacing tacit knowledge through material translation and co-analysis of lived experience
Kelly Anderson
Week 4 – October 22, 10.30am-12.30pm
The Educative Agent and Authority in Public Pedagogy
Karen Charman and Mary Dixon
Week 5 – October 29, 10.30am-12.30pm
Gathering Ground: Building translocal place pedagogies through online/offline workshops
Kelly-Lee Hickey
Week 6 – November 5, 10.30am-12.30pm
Locations of Law or non Law
Peter Alsen
Week 7 – November 12, 10.30am-12.30pm
Plenary Session
Further enquiries please contact Karen.Charman@vu.edu.au
Please note: the annual conference will now be run as a series of online seminars throughout October and November 2020.
Public Pedagogies of Location
As the smoke from the country fires permeated the city a renewed relationship arises out of the ashes. The borders between public and personal, nature and creation, became obscured, perhaps showing ideological relationships to location that are fluid.
In what ways might relationships to location be pedagogical? Location is critical for a number of reasons. Locations are ignored or privileged; they are positioned against each other, yet we claim our location and location claims us. Locations of protest are contested and behaviour monitored. The ecologies of location are fragile and in need of care, or perhaps attentiveness to these ecologies are strengthening?
This conference theme extends a call to reimagine relationships to location, to engage these blurred boundaries and emergent spaces of location and our relationships to concepts of localism, activism, and pedagogy.
Please email karen.charman@vu.edu.au with any proposals or to discuss ideas for the conference.
September 2019 saw our latest Pop Up School at Wyndham Park. This event was part of the Wyndham Learning Festival and the Party in the Precinct. Once again, we saw the rich knowledge that is community!
The conference program and abstracts are now available.
Conference program now available to view – click here
Abstracts now available to view – click here
Registrations are now open for the 2019 Public Pedagogies conference:
