Rethinking Education’s Bi-Weekly Round Up
Welcome to Rethinking Education’s second newsletter!
I’ m thinking about launching a Socially Just and Decolonial Research & Project Design Methods group membership. As a practitioner and PhD researcher, for years, I couldn’t find any courses or go-to places to guide me with key resources or practical guidance around how to embed these practices into my work.
I’m so excited to address this through creating a Socially Just and Decolonial Research & Project Design Methods community-based group membership, where in addition to weekly course modules, you will be provided with the theory, tools, and resources to embed socially- just, decolonial research and project design methods into your practice. You will have the opportunity to join a closed community of practice group to share resources, questions and network and access monthly guest speakers and support with your projects.
If you are interested, please fill in this quick form and I will be in contact soon with further updates, including a special rate for founding members.
Five Resources, Webinars and Readings to check out this week
- Read: Research and Evidence
The Bukavu Series online exhibition explores the power dynamics between researchers from the Global North and the Global South. What is the role of power dynamics in the production of academic knowledge? Is true academic collaboration between researchers from the Global North and South possible amid prevailing power dynamics?
They argue that this process is, among other things, responsible for the dehumanization and the erasure of researchers from the Global South. https://bukavuseries.com/
2. Participate in a webinar: Decolonizing humanitarian aid
The decolonization of aid #1: a conversation from a historical perspective is the 1st in a series of debates exploring the controversies and common ground in the discussion about the decolonization of aid.This first session will look at the historical perspective.The speakers in this first session are:
- Dr Arua Oko Omaka, Fellow at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Nigeria
- Professor Bertrand Taithe, Professor of History of Humanitarian Aid Manchester University
3. Participate in a webinar: Decolonising Education and International Development Tickets, Wed 12 May 2021 at 15:00 | Eventbrite
Not your standard zoom webinar! This session uses participatory theatre to engage co-unlearners in examining the mechanisms of colonial reproduction using a Theatre of Oppressed approach (Boal, 2002).
4. Listen to: Critical Emancipatory Design Thinking
This podcast with Lesley Ann Noel’s is a brilliant introduction to Critical Emancipatory Design thinking. This is so useful for anyone working in the international development or social impact space. Lesley delves into power issues and design, participatory design, and working with communities.
5. Buy :‘ Voices from the Jungle’
This fantastic book is a collection of stories written by people who lived in ‘the jungle’, a refugee camp near Calais in Northern France. This wonderful book offers alternative insights into media depictions of the people who lived in the camp in 2016/2017, and currently , pluto press have a 50% discount throughout May :)
About me: My name is Jess Oddy and I am on a mission to support organisations, academic institutions , practitioners and students design and deliver equity and evidence based education programmes and research in international development and humanitarian settings.
Check out jessoddy.com to find out more about my work and contact me info@jessoddy.com to discuss potential collaborations.
