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Events
Pedagogical Praxis as a Site of Struggle against Neoliberal Fascisms
- Time
- 1pm - 2.30pm
- Date
- 21 May 2025
- Duration
- 90 minute(s)
- Location
- Online
More information
- Registration Required
- Yes
- Registration Information
To register for this online event, please email Titas Biswas TBiswas@ucc.ie by 18th May.
The ISS21
Research for Civil Society, Environment and Social Action (REACT) Cluster invites you to the first of two ‘
unconference’ events centered on the premise: Pedagogical Praxis as a Site of Struggle against Neoliberal Fascisms.
This premise is rooted in critical pedagogy and educational theory and the proposition that universities may be sites where neoliberalism and fascism are resisted and challenged with critical reflection from educators and students. This event will be participant-driven with lively conversation and debate, based on the ‘
unconference’ model.
The following provocations/questions will be explored:
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Are university pedagogical practices complicit with neoliberal fascist structures?
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Can decolonial pedagogies exist within educational institutions that rely on universal metrics, standardisations, merit-based systems and economy/market centered individualised outcomes?
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How can educators navigate neoliberal fascist institutional and political constraints while enacting decolonial pedagogical resistances?
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Has decolonial pedagogical praxis been commodified, co-opted and/or contested within neoliberal institutions?
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How to resist fascist violence through educational praxis?
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How to engage in decolonial pedagogical praxis to disrupt neoliberal and fascist incursions into education?
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Exploring a connection with the next event unconference (September 24th)
Biographies
Titaś Biswas
is a sociologist and media/film scholar. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the UCD School of Sociology. She also works as a lecturer in Media Studies at Carlow College St Patrick’s and as a Research Assistant on the Horizon-Europe funded project INSPIRE based in ISS21 and the School of Applied Social Studies at UCC.
Michelle Bergin
is an occupational therapist. She is currently a Research Ireland postdoctoral fellow with the School of Clinical Therapies at UCC and lectures on play rights on the BA (Early Years and Childhood Studies). Prior to this Michelle was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early-Stage researcher with the Horizon-Europe funded project P4Play.
Dr Catherine Forde
is a Senior Lecturer in Youth and Community Work. Before joining the School of Applied Social Studies I worked as a community worker in Forum, a project of the Third EC Anti-Poverty Programme, and as a researcher. She is a Co-I of the Horizon-Europe funded project INSPIRE based in ISS21 and the School of Applied Social Studies at UCC.