unSchooling Oppression Conference – Day3
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 – 4 events
All conference activities are FREE!
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Workshop – 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: Institute for Women’s Studies, 143 Seraphin-Marion (near Waller St), room 205
Presenter: Marymay Downing
Topic: Militarization & Education
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Workshop – 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Location: Institute for Women’s Studies, 143 Seraphin-Marion (near Waller St), room 205
Presenter: Justin Barca
Topic: Healing Oppression with the Circus Arts: A peaceful and creative approach to physical education
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Workshop – 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: Institute for Women’s Studies, 143 Seraphin-Marion (near Waller St), room 205
Presenter: Naomi
Topic: Infiltrating a Zionist program in the hole-y land: unveiling the truth of Palestine through self-education and exposure from within
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Event: Film Night – 6:30pm (doors at 6:00pm)
Location: Ottawa Public Library Auditorium, 120 Metcalfe St (at Laurier St)
Title: *CHANGED* Due to technical difficulties with the previously
advertised titles, we will now be screening “Free to Learn: A Radical
Experiment in Education” http://www.freeschoolmovie.com/
Topic: A wonderful 70-minute film about the Albany Free School (Albany, NY)
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Love to learn, but hate school?
Think there must be something better than this?
Want to arm yourself against the weapons of mass instruction?
unSchooling Oppression at the University of Ottawa
Conference, November 5-10, 2007
Registration Cost: FREE, but donations are encouraged to cover speakers’ travel and accommodation costs
See the full schedule and speaker bios at: http://unschoolingoppression.wordpress.com/
This is not your average conference! unSchooling Oppression is an original, student-led initiative designed not only for academic professionals, but for students, teachers, professors, activists, and community members alike. It is both a critical examination of the various forms of oppression within traditional schooling models and a hopeful exploration of liberating educational alternatives.
Five evening keynote presentations will feature speakers on a broad range of topics, each concluding with a period for questions and discussion. Various aspects of their talks will touch on the historical roots and purposes of traditional schooling; power, authority and oppression; institutional violence; curricular racism, sexism and homophobia; freedom and deschooling; alternative models for learning; and much more. Confirmed speakers include: David Noble, John Taylor Gatto, Cindy Milstein, Tara Guenette & Julie Lalonde, and Matt Hern. These presentations will allow attendees from the university and the broader community to critically examine current teaching practices and envision alternative education models that are student-centered and promote independent thinking, self-motivation, equity, and solidarity, both inside and outside the school. The speakers will be traveling to Ottawa from around Canada and the USA. See our website for full schedule and speaker bios.
The conference will also include a series of daytime workshops organized by members of the community as well as guests from the United States on issues that they consider relevant to the themes of education as oppression, and education as liberation. Themes will include the deschooling movement, self-motivated learning, militarization and education, and more.
The most exciting part of the conference will be the concluding caucus, wherein conference attendees will have the opportunity to brainstorm together a way forward in applying some of the ideas presented during the conference. Our goal, as conference organizers, is for this event to catalyze a new movement of projects and campaigns here in Ottawa to directly address the issues presented.
We hope you can be a part of this movement!