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Learning about location in a climate of change

As part of our 2020 seminar program a session was conducted by the Climate Change Education Network (CCEN) titled Learning about Location in a Climate of Change.

The following are some samples of the group poetry and other reflections that were created during the session and more can be viewed on the CCEN website.

The seminar was created and presented by CCEN members Bronwyn Sutton, Gen Blades, Meg Upton and Peta White for the Public Pedagogies Institute Online Seminar Series Public Pedagogies of Location.

For more information about the seminar please contact CCEN.

Human spirit

Thirsty
Thirsty for new possibilities
New elders to guide our way

Surrender to unmanicured dynamics
Out of our control
Land(E)scaping
Becoming, reclamation, resilience

The Human spirit
The Cactus spirit
The Virus spirit
The Earth spirit

No borders
One spirit

I noticed the absence of aircraft in the sky
Thirsty for normalcy but for somethings that are new
Waters are calm but impending feeling of
something will happen
Precariousness
Notion of human control is drastically changed

“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world” – Mary Oliver

A storyline

A courtyard tree
A bunch of lemons
A miniature pony
A camping ground
A roughened barked tree
Ducks and masks
Coping strategies
Dissonance between Fahrenheit and Celsius
Dissonance between human and natural and human world

The natural world is still doing its great big thing
The fact that we are more contained means we may have moved back to a different rhythm
Changing scale, changing sense of time
We notice it more

Movement and connecting to space
Quietness of tone,

Reflective, taking time to pause, look and appreciate,

The current capacity of nature to continually regenerate?

Collage of pictures to illustrate temporality with word phrases to help speak to the images and highlight our theme of noticing.

Because we are here…
connecting inside outside.
Connecting with life,
the cycle of life.

This place was once burnt by grassfires but now it’s grown back

This place was once burnt by grassfires
but now it’s grown back

Questions of life, death, sickness, & strength

Questions of life, death, sickness, & strength

The continuum of time - past, present and future.

The continuum of time – past, present and future.

Receding glaciers in Iceland - A constant and a change

Receding glaciers in Iceland – A constant and a change

Beauty that reminds me of home

Beauty that reminds me of home

This is a timeless desert in Namibia - out of time - ever changing yet never changing

This is a timeless desert in Namibia – out of time –
ever changing yet never changing

Bees collecting pollen and nectar in Spring like they do every year at this time

Bees collecting pollen and nectar in Spring
like they do every year at this time

the dead and the exchange of matter between stateds

The dead and the exchange of matter between states

More information about the session and examples of group work are available on the CCEN website.

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2020 Seminar Series

The Public Pedagogies Institute is hosting a series of online seminars in place of our regular yearly conference. We are excited by the response to our call out for presentations addressing the theme of Public Pedagogies of Location. 

Initially a response to the bushfires in Australia, this theme has taken on added meaning in light of our lived experience of COVID 19.  As a result of the virus we are faced with our location. This can be understood in many different ways: our immediate physical surrounds, our neighbourhood, our digital world, our countries.  We are all positioned in a space where the possibilities of what is to come are yet to be revealed. This seminar series will engage with Public Pedagogies of Location in ways that stimulate reflection, intellectually challenge us but importantly connect us.

Sessions will run Thursdays from 10.30am-12.30pm (AEST).
They will be run over the platform Zoom

Week 1 – October 1, 10.30am-12.30pm 
Learning about Location in a Climate of Change
Bronwyn Sutton & Climate Change Education Network

Week 2 – October 8, 10.30am-12.30pm 
Visual Considerations and Contemplations
Belinda MacGill

Week 3 – October 15, 10.30am-12.30pm  
Narrative Panoramas: surfacing tacit knowledge through material translation and co-analysis of lived experience
Kelly Anderson

Week 4 – October 22, 10.30am-12.30pm 
The Educative Agent and Authority in Public Pedagogy
Karen Charman and Mary Dixon

Week 5 – October 29, 10.30am-12.30pm 
Gathering Ground: Building translocal place pedagogies through online/offline workshops
Kelly-Lee Hickey

Week 6 – November 5, 10.30am-12.30pm 
Locations of Law or non Law, Peter Alsen

Week 7 – November 12, 10.30am-12.30pm 
Plenary Session

Download Program

Click here to register

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Towards a Port Arlington Curriculum

A new publication by the Public Pedagogies Institute, Towards a Port Arlington Curriculum, is now available. Based on the work of the Institute and the Pop Up School project undertaken in Port Arlington, Victoria. The Institute worked with Citizen Researchers in the local area in the process of completing the project.

Public Pedagogies Institute, 2020

Karen Charman, Mary Dixon, Robyn Bellingham, Jayson Cooper

Citizen researchers:
JASMIN MONKS, TANIKA BROWN, DARCY WARK, EDEN VINCE, SAVANNAH BOOTHROYD, ZARYAH SCOTT AND OLIVIA GOURLAY

Download Towards a Port Arlington Curriculum

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PPI Conference 2020

Our annual conference will this year take place as a series of online seminars

Our original theme was provoked by the recent bush fires in Australia but now in light of us staying locally, this theme has new resonance.  

Public Pedagogies of Location

We are excited by the response to our call out for presentations addressing the theme of Public Pedagogies of Location, which will this year be run as series of seminars in place of our regular yearly conference.

Initially a response to the bushfires in Australia this theme has taken on added meaning in light of our lived experience of COVID 19.  As a result of the virus we are faced with our location.  This can be understood in many different ways, our immediate physical surrounds, our neighbourhood, our digital world, our countries.  We are all positioned in a space where the possibilities of what is to come are yet to be revealed. This seminar series will engage with Public Pedagogies of Location in ways that stimulate reflection, intellectually challenge us but importantly connect us.

Seminar Series

Each session will take place on a Thursday from 10.30am-12.30pm (AEST). The sessions will be run over Zoom

Week 1 – October 1, 10.30am-12.30pm
Learning about Location in a Climate of Change
Bronwyn Sutton & Climate Change Education Network

Week 2 – October 8, 10.30am-12.30pm
Visual Considerations and Contemplations
BelindaMacGill

Week 3 – October 15, 10.30am-12.30pm 
Narrative Panoramas: surfacing tacit knowledge through material translation and co-analysis of lived experience
Kelly Anderson

Week 4 – October 22, 10.30am-12.30pm
The Educative Agent and Authority in Public Pedagogy
Karen Charman and Mary Dixon

Week 5 – October 29, 10.30am-12.30pm
Gathering Ground: Building translocal place pedagogies through online/offline workshops
Kelly-Lee Hickey

Week 6 – November 5, 10.30am-12.30pm
Locations of Law or non Law
Peter Alsen

Week 7 – November 12, 10.30am-12.30pm
Plenary Session

Download Program

Click here to register

Further enquiries please contact Karen.Charman@vu.edu.au

Conference, News

Public Pedagogies of Location

Please note: the annual conference will now be run as a series of online seminars throughout October and November 2020.

Public Pedagogies of Location

As the smoke from the country fires permeated the city a renewed relationship arises out of the ashes.  The borders between public and personal, nature and creation, became obscured, perhaps showing ideological relationships to location that are fluid. 

In what ways might relationships to location be pedagogical? Location is critical for a number of reasons. Locations are ignored or privileged; they are positioned against each other, yet we claim our location and location claims us. Locations of protest are contested and behaviour monitored. The ecologies of location are fragile and in need of care, or perhaps attentiveness to these ecologies are strengthening?

This conference theme extends a call to reimagine relationships to location, to engage these blurred boundaries and emergent spaces of location and our relationships to concepts of localism, activism, and pedagogy.

Please email karen.charman@vu.edu.au with any proposals or to discuss ideas for the conference.

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A Walk Through Justice

Meg Cotter and Richard Dove of Wyndham Community and Education Centre were recently awarded a  Police Community Exemplary Award at the Victorian Multicultural Awards for Excellence, for their project Wyndham Citizen’s Academy: A Walk through Justice.

The Public Pedagogies Institute would like to congratulate Meg and Richard for their great work and the recognition it has received.

The project will also be discussed in their presentation at our upcoming conference Walking and Talking Public Pedagogies, November 28-29, 2019. Details here

A video of the Wyndham Citizens’ Academy Graduation, recorded and developed by Victoria Police, can be viewed here: https://www.facebook.com/eyewatchwyndham/videos/vb.134404370080550/418695362089395/?type=3&theater

“Wyndham Citizen’s Academy: A Walk through Justice is a ground-breaking program, led by Wyndham Community and Education Centre, which provided fifteen culturally diverse community leaders, residing in Wyndham, with a first-hand of experience of Victoria’s Justice System. From Victoria’s State Parliament to the Sunshine Magistrates Court; from Wyndham North Police Station to the Metropolitan Remand Centre – and even The Age Newspaper – these dynamic leaders experienced it all.”

A short documentary outlining the project can also be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxGwjjPxagg

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Public Pedagogies Conference 2019

Walking and Talking Public Pedagogies
November 28 – 29, 2019
Footscray, Melbourne

The annual Public Pedagogies Institute conference features a range of presentations, performances, forums and workshops across the diverse field of public pedagogies.

Registration includes attendance at all conference events over two days, November 28-29 with lunch and refreshments provided.

Registered guests are also invited to a pre-conference event on November 27 at the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne. details here

Conference program now available to view here

Abstracts now available to view here

Keynote Speakers:

Stephanie Springgay

Tony Birch

Further details here

PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT   

Wednesday 27th November  11 am – 12 pm,
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

Whau Conversations: Hikoi – a walking workshop with artists from Aotearoa/New Zealand in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.

If you would like to attend the pre-conference walk please email Mary.Dixon@Deakin.edu.au for a map and further details.

Conference, News

Conference registrations now open

Walking and Talking Public Pedagogies
November 28 – 29, 2019
Footscray, Melbourne

The annual Public Pedagogies Institute conference features a range of presentations, performances, forums and workshops across the diverse field of public pedagogies and is open to participants from many sectors.

The conference will take place over two days from November 28 – 29, at the Footscray Nicholson campus of Victoria University.

Keynote Speakers:

Stephanie Springgay

Stephanie Springgay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the University of Toronto. She is a leading scholar in research-creation methodologies with a focus on walking, affect, new materialisms and posthumanisms, queer theory, and contemporary art as pedagogy. Her most recent research-creation projects are documented at www.thepedagogicalimpulse.com, www.walkinglab.org and www.stephaniespringgay.com. She has published widely in academic journals and is the co-author of the book Walking Methodologies in More-than-Human World: Walkinglab Routledge (2018), with Sarah E. Truman; co-editor of M/othering a Bodied Curriculum: Emplacement, Desire, Affect, University of Toronto Press, with Debra Freedman; co-editor of Curriculum and the Cultural Body, Peter Lang with Debra Freedman; and author of Body Knowledge and Curriculum: Pedagogies of Touch in Youth and Visual Culture, Peter Lang.

Tony Birch

Tony Birch is a renowned academic, author, educator and researcher. In 2015, Dr Birch joined VU as the first recipient of the University’s Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship. His research interests centre on climate change and indigenous knowledge systems. His highly acclaimed novels include Shadowboxing (2006),  Father’s Day (2009),  Blood (2011),  The Promise (2014), Ghost River (2015) and most recently, The White Girl (2019). In 2017 he was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award for his contribution to contemporary Australian literature.

More details about the conference here.

PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT   

Wednesday 27th November  11 am – 12 pm,
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

Whau Conversations: Hikoi – a walking workshop with artists from Aotearoa/New Zealand in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne.

Find out more about the pre-conference event here.