The Paulo Freire Project of the discipline of Adult Education, School
of Education, is delighted to welcome Aziz Choudry back to the
Pietermariztburg campus.
WHEN: Wednesday 28th November 2018, 12 noon
WHERE: Education Building, Golf Road campus, Pietermaritzburg
PLEASE RSVP for venue purposes to Anne Harley: HarleyA@ukzn.ac.za
Aziz
Choudry is Associate Professor and Canada
Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the
Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Canada; and
Visiting Professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation,
University of Johannesburg.
His
interests include informal, popular, and community education, critical
adult education, and labour education; the construction and production of
knowledge(s) in social movements and community organizations, NGOs, trade unions
and im/migrant workers’ organizations; research for social change, including
activist/ community research, institutional ethnography/ political activist
ethnography; community/ activist archives, histories and documentation;
Anti-racist education; Anti-colonial, Third World, and Indigenous thought and
scholarship; critical race feminism; Globalization and the political economy of
international aid, trade and development. He is currently on the boards of the Immigrant
Workers Centre & Global Justice Ecology Project, and helps run the open-publishing
website, bilaterals.org.
An
activist-scholar, Aziz has been involved in a range of social, political and
environmental justice movements and organisations, and his scholarly articles have been
published in International Education,
Globalizations, Global Labour Journal, Post-Colonial
Directions in Education, McGill
Journal of Education, Canadian
Journal for the Study of Adult Education, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Studies in Social Justice and Race and Class, Education for Change, and Interface,
among many others. He
is author of the recent Just Work? Migrant Workers' Struggles Today, and Learning activism: The intellectual life of contemporary social
movements, and editor of Activists
and the surveillance state: Learning from repression, among other books.
Aziz will
be speaking on the just-published History's Schools: Past struggles
and present realities, which he co-edited with Salim Vally. Including case studies from South
Africa, Palestine, Iran, Argentina, the US and the UK, the book seeks to
understand relationships between learning, knowledge production, history and
social change: how do educators and activists in today’s struggles use
historical materials from earlier periods of organizing for political
education? How do they create and engage with independent and often informal
archives and debates? How do they ultimately connect this historical knowledge
with contemporary struggles?