Pedagogies of Hope Workshop Series 

May 11 & 12, 2023 at McMaster University and Centre[3] in Ohròn:wakon (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).

Pedagogies of Hope emerges against the backdrop of ongoing economic, environmental, and public health crises that continue to exacerbate inequalities in the education system and in the lives of students who must negotiate uncertain futures. Please join us on May 11 and 12, 2023 in supporting pedagogical innovation through a two-day community knowledge exchange workshop series.  We welcome proposals from interdisciplinary scholars, graduate students, practitioners, community activists, and artists for a roundtable workshop series taking place on May 11 & 12 at McMaster University and Centre [3] located in Ohròn:wakon (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).

Through reflexive and collaborative exchange of current pedagogical challenges and practical pedagogical methods, this workshop seeks to gather scholars, artists, and community activists to gather in co-designing and mobilizing critical pedagogies and praxes directed towards the cultivation of alternative learning realities and just futurities through a politics of hope. Guided by decolonial, anti-colonial, queer, and disability justice frameworks, this 2-day workshop series is intended as a collective effort in imagining otherwise; to explore how we might facilitate learning in ways that transgress the hierarchical systems and boundaries of knowledge production and dissemination in mainstream learning environments by reorienting embodied experiences of knowing, community engagement, and social awareness as legitimate sites of knowledge in and beyond our pedagogical praxis.

In addition to a number of art and performance exhibitions, the workshop will consist of 3 roundtable discussions:

1) Art-based Learning and Community Practice

Our first roundtable discussion will involve sharing insights on the challenges of post-pandemic teaching and learning as well as reflections on online learning [accessibility, online community building, etc].

2) Learning in Acts: Lessons from the Classroom & Beyond

​The second roundtable will be on pedagogies of hope, lessons from the classroom and beyond. This roundtable will work with educators and practitioners that have experienced working with marginalized communities and have deployed critical and art based pedagogies in their classrooms or community practices.

3) Dreaming Together: Embodiment of Hope in Educational Futurities

This final session will include junior and emerging scholars and their insights on the future of teaching and learning in the (not-yet-here) post-pandemic classroom.

**NOTE: We ask submissions to reference which of the three gatherings they would like to be considered for.

Submission Details:

Proposals are due March 14th, 2023 and should be submitted to: pedagogiesofhope@gmail.com

Submission should include the following:

• Contact information: Name and Email
• Institutional/Community Affiliation and/or Address
• Preferred roundtable discussion
• 100-150 word proposal & 50 word bio

Please note, there is limited funding available for applicants with no institutional support. In your application, please indicate if you would like to be considered for financial support. 

For more information on Pedagogies of Hope and our workshop series, please visit: https://www.pedagogiesofhope.com/