Session 3.3
Starting Early: Teaching DE/CE/SE to College Students as a Radical Intervention
4th November (Wednesday)
1.5 hours (CERN members only)
Organiser: Marianna Pavlovskaya
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Abstract
Teaching DE/CE/SE within the mainstream college curriculum, as opposed to CEI summer and winter schools, presents distinct challenges. This curriculum is overwhelmingly capitalocentric, race-blind, and heteronormative. Teaching about what we call diverse/community/solidarity economies typically takes place in courses on community development, social work, social reproduction, and other fields that are not seen as central to the economy itself. Most of our students encounter the radical potential of recognizing possibilities beyond the capitalist economy only in advanced graduate courses, relatively late in their education. This knowledge often transforms their view of the world but remains at the margins of their college experience.
Can we tackle capitalocentrism by introducing DE/CE/SE into undergraduate classrooms? Does reaching the most junior among our interlocutors—the college students—open up new possibilities for radical post-capitalist transformation? Is this a form of intervention that we, as university instructors, should actively pursue? Many of us have already incorporated these ideas into our regular courses while contending with curricular constraints. This session provides a space to share both the challenges and the rewards of this work and to think together about the classroom as a site for making other worlds with the generations who come after us.
Featuring: Kevin St. Martin, Katharine McKinnon, Lindsay Naylor, Lauren Hudson, Coline Chevrin, Christian Anderson, Marianna Pavlovskaya
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