240064 VO Education for social justice in a global context (2024W)

As mentioned above: Proof of performance is provided in the form of a written examination at the end of the semester or on the other examination dates. The basis for this are, on the one hand, the lectures and, on the other hand, the original texts of the theorists discussed, which are specified as compulsory reading.

Here is the schedule of the lectures:

Oct:

Oct. 7: Gerald Faschingeder, Margarita Langthaler (International Development, University of Vienna): Introduction: Emancipatory education in a global educational uniformity? Or: Paulo Freire, the Cuban educational revolution and its political-pedagogical heirs.

Oct. 14: Margarita Langthaler (University of Vienna, ÖFSE): Liberating educational concepts and their (revolutionary) implementation in Latin America. From Simón Rodríguez' educación republicana to the education campaigns in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Oct. 21: Gerald Faschingeder (University of Vienna, Paulo Freire Center): Pre-colonial education systems and what became of them.

28 Oct: Katrin Aiterwegmair (Graduate International Development, University of Vienna; doctorate in Chiapas/Mexico): “Cultivating Consciousness”: Emancipatory Education in Peasant Self-Organization in Chiapas, Mexico

Nov:

Nov. 4: Ana Pešikan (University of Belgrade): Equity in Education in different sociocultural contexts: The Case of Yugoslavia.

Nov. 11: Cristina Alarcón López (Institute for Educational Science, Department of School and Educational Research in International Comparison): Pupil and student protests in Chile

Nov. 18: Gerald Faschingeder (University of Vienna, Paulo Freire Center): What does social justice actually mean for education in a global context? Axes of educational inequality and how to overcome them.

Nov. 25: Gerald Faschingeder (University of Vienna, Paulo Freire Center): bell hooks and Audre Lorde. Feminist claims to liberating education.

Dec:

Dec. 2: Veronika Wöhrer (Institute for Educational Science, Department of Educational Inequality): Participatory action research - self-determined learning and research?

Dec. 9: Maximilian M.J. Chuhila (PhD, University of Dar es Salaam) [lecture via Zoom in English]: Education for Self-Reliance in Tanzania during Ujamaa, including aspects of adult education.

Dec. 16: Walter Kohan (State Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) [lecture via Zoom in English): Thinking with Paulo Freire: On Learning, Dialogue and Questioning as Beginning. [Date still unconfirmed]

January:

January 13: Gregor Kneussel (sinologist, Vienna): China's education policy between liberating aspiration and reality. A historical outline of the communist government's education policy.

January 20: Margarita Langthaler (Uni Wien, ÖFSE): The myth of liberating education: Why education never delivers what it promises. On the conjunctures of the concept of education and its new sisters competence and lifelong learning. An attempt at synthesis in memoriam Erich Ribolits.

January 27: 1st examination date