Scene from听"Keep Me Away from this Father"
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"": A Bricolage of Violence within Brazilian Curriculum
Dr. MARIA S脺SSEKIND, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State听(hybrid event; co-hosted by Mosa茂que and听Artful Inquiry Research Group (AIRG))
May 8, 2024 at 4-5.30pm (EST)
In person: 苹果淫院 Education Building; Room #133听听
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This presentation starts with the exhibition of "Keep Me Away from this Father," which is a 16-minute documentary presenting the results of a research-learning project at the Faculty of Education engaging grad and undergrad students. Based on the students' conversations, writings and a mosaic of songs and images of the patriarchal violence, the film rescues the main themathics of the classes combined in an exposition in 2023 in the Male Bathroom. Following the Docu-film the thinking-practicing of a Queer curriculum under a post structural, afro-Latin-feminist and decolonial approach is going to be explored. Since 2014 I鈥檝e been working on a methodology to improve the registries of the everyday life curricula creation within the classrooms of teacher鈥檚 education in a public university in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. That led me to experiment different forms of assessments and invent the Plateaus鈥� Exam which consists in a collective and singular free writing. The students are invited to write about their own experiences at the university and about their thinking on curricular theories but, every 6 or 8 minutes, they must exchange the papers. This ongoing experiment is based on Deleuze and Guattari 鈥淭housand Plateaus鈥� method of writing and intends to register the complicated conversations (Pinar) within the classroom. From William Pinar鈥檚 Currere we鈥檝e learned that we need to excavate and highlight the individual's everyday experience and their ability to learn from experience. Exchanging writings, thoughts about the papers they read and comment and draw with and over the others writings, generating debates and interesting oppositions about misogyny, racism and academical issues. In a third moment, this experiment on teaching-learning and research is explored in its theoretical inspirations relating to Michel de Certeau, the everyday life studies and the decolonial debate in the Brazilian field of education. So, "Keep me away from this father: complicated conversations within Brazilian Teacher鈥檚 Education curriculum" is a session is planned to exhibit the film (subtitled in English) and discuss the patriarchy, colonial and capitalist marks and violences within the polyphonie of curriculum methods, theories, and languages reflecting about the artcraft of the academical work acknowledging Ted Aoki鈥檚 idea about the different layers occurring on classroom conversations.
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Dr. Maria S眉ssekind is a mother and grandmother, feminist and activist, and a writer from the South. She is a Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State for graduate and undergraduate students having coordinated the Education Graduate Program. S眉ssekind was the Southeast Vice-President of the ANPEd (National Association of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Education) until December 2023, having represented the Curriculum Working Group since 2013. At ANPEd she is currently at the Editorial Board, Coordinates the cooperation with Popular University of Social Movements/UPMS and represents the association at the Commission for Politics in Human Rights at the Ministry of Education/MEC. Her research and teaching focus on curriculum theories, practices, and policies towards democracy and human rights acknowledgment against the epistemicides and necropolitics. S眉ssekind has been working on basic and higher education and research since 1988, with books and articles published in epistemology, curriculum, and teacher training both in English and Portuguese. S眉ssekind's research are granted by the Scientist of Rio de Janeiro State Scholarship (FAPERJ). Dr. S眉ssekind was Visiting Scholar at the University of British Columbia working with Professor Emeritus William Pinar. Dr. S眉ssekind holds a Magister Scientia at UFRRJ (Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and a Ph.D in Education from UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro). Both her degrees are validated by the University of Toronto.
This event is co-hosted by听Mosa茂que and听Artful Inquiry Research Group (AIRG).听
