All repressive regimes loathe education, students, and educators. One more case of the infamous (euphemism alert) French police violently attacking school teachers.
We can ofc remain silent but they are coming for everyone!
Sandeep Bakshi
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Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He, they. echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/baks… decolonizingsexualities.org instagram.com/sandeep.bak
![Aucune politique d'effacement ne parvient jamais à faire disparaître totalement les traces trans et queer [...], ces traces attendent d'être
(re)vues et (re)lues pour ouvrir nos perspectives aux mondes de résistances qui s'étendent au-delà des frontières.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5a5ewvchgtmoi4zsez4sxm5/bafkreiha3v5cn4n36vxgxsjv6l6ugu4o2nenbbxm33rqxrohvrmznnq2ne)
![LESSONS IN STRUGGLE, STUDIES IN RESISTANCE
EDUCATION, LEARNING AND STRUGGLE KNOWLEDGE
Regarding learning, our primary interest is not in the formal degree and diploma programmes, courses and curricula but rather in the spaces in which students, faculty and non-academic workers find themselves planning, mobilising and resisting together, including official student organisations, trade unions, campaigns and informal networks and modes of activism.
As university academics and educators with backgrounds in popular/ movement radical adult education, research and organise outside of universities, we are keenly interested in the politics of knowledge production and the relationships between informal/non-formal learning in the course of struggles for change, and processes of more formal education. We take a sympathetic, but unromantic view of social movements and social movement knowledge production, well aware of internal tensions, contradictions and limitations that can be produced nd reproduced as well as powerful visions and ideas that emerge from struggles for change. internal contradictions as Well as Globally, within activist networks and social movements, there is a reuen rich history of processes and practices combining informal, perhaps VISio incidental learning with more programmatic political education - and indeed theory (Choudry, 2015; Choudry & Vally, 2018). Scandrett and la
Ballantyne (2019) note that:
[i]n the university, formal education (for credit) is given privilege and priority above non-formal education. Non-formal education however can be more self-directed, collective and democratic. A dialectical relationship between formal and non-formal education is a dynamic struggle in which both forms of education are valued and critically interrogate one another.
(p. 176)
Some chapters in this book explicitly build on and discuss activist
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