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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Fall 2022 |
| Registration ID | EDUCB217001 |
| Course Title | Lessons in Liberation |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Education |
| Instructor | Wilson,Chanelle |
| Times and Days | W 01:10pm-04:00pm
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| Room Location | TAYSEM |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2323 Formal schooling is often perceived as a positive vestige of colonization, yet traditional practices continue a legacy of oppression, in different forms. This course will analyze education practices, language, knowledge production, and culture in ways especially relevant in the age of globalization. We will explore and contextualize the subjugation of students and educators that perpetuates colonialist power and implement practices that amplify the voices of the marginalized. We will learn lessons in liberation from a historical perspective and consider contemporary influence, with a cross-continental focus. Liberatory education practices have always existed, often on the margins of colonial forces, but present nonetheless. This course will support students’ pursuit of a politics of resistance, subversion, and transformation. We will focus on the development of a critical consciousness, utilizing abolitionist and fugitive teaching pedagogy and culturally responsive pedagogy as tools for resistance. Students will engage with novels, documentaries, historical texts, and scholarly documents to explore US and Cape Verdean education as case studies. In this course, we will consider the productive tensions between an explicit commitment to ideas of progress, and the anticolonial concepts and paradigms which impact what is created to achieve education liberation. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI); Enrollment Cap: 15; This course is for 360 students only. This course is part of 360 Paradigms of Revival: Black Liberatory Education, Embodiment & the Art. In a fundamentally decolonial spirit, this course cluster examines the ways colonialism has contained, collected, captured, and commodified Blackness, a practice that circulates objectified images of the peoples, cultures, and cultural objects of Africa and the African Diaspora. Furthermore, we explore how African cultural traditions such as dance and artwork become suppressed and manipulated by western institutions such as academia and the museum. This cluster aims to use liberatory strategies to reconstruct notions of Blackness beyond the strongholds of colonialism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and “the chattel principle.” To be specific, we will investigate the artistic expressions of African dance and African artwork through new liberatory post-colonial educational frameworks to consider how Black culture expression and Black cultural legacy across the African diaspora have been sustained and revived, despite systematic attempts to capture, condemn or contain these artistic expressions. Through reviving and futuring Black Radical tradtions in collaboration with Queer and Afro Feminist theory and practice, we offer new context and new life for understanding, experiencing, and embodying Africanness and Blackness. If you are interested in the 360 program, you must fill out the application which is due on April 6th at NOON by clicking on link.https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside-21.If you are interested in the 360 program, you must fill out the application which is due on April 6th at NOON by clicking on link.https://www.brynmawr.edu/inside-98. This 360 cluster includes enrolling in ARTD B210 |
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