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Dreaming Up Pedgogies that Heal
Proposal abstract :
What if teaching and learning are conceptualized as analogous to dreams? Or, what if our dreams are some of our most potent, dynamic, and sustainable pedagogical spaces where we encounter knowledge systems, epistemologies, and modes of being that are both familiar and unfamiliar, knowable but also bound up in wonderful mystery? How might a dream pedagogy enhance learning as the (a) experience of dreaming, (b) the embodiment of dreams, and (c) a process of dreaming and waking from sleep? The current proposal will engage these questions around the work of scholars and teachers of African descent. Through a series of activities (site visits and parabolic reflections) about dreaming and co-dreaming, the project seeks to develop a “dream pedagogy” that is informed by African and African diaspora epistemologies, critical theories, spiritualities, and commitments to communal (intergenerational, interregional, and interspecies) wellbeing and health.
Learning Abstract :
The goal of the project is to develop a pedagogy of dreaming (or a "dream pedagogy") that is interconnected and multilayered around interlocution/risk-sharing, transformation/resilience, and imagination/flourishing.
What if teaching and learning are conceptualized as analogous to dreams? Or, what if our dreams are some of our most potent, dynamic, and sustainable pedagogical spaces where we encounter knowledge systems, epistemologies, and modes of being that are both familiar and unfamiliar, knowable but also bound up in wonderful mystery? How might a dream pedagogy enhance learning as the (a) experience of dreaming, (b) the embodiment of dreams, and (c) a process of dreaming and waking from sleep? The current proposal will engage these questions around the work of scholars and teachers of African descent. Through a series of activities (site visits and parabolic reflections) about dreaming and co-dreaming, the project seeks to develop a “dream pedagogy” that is informed by African and African diaspora epistemologies, critical theories, spiritualities, and commitments to communal (intergenerational, interregional, and interspecies) wellbeing and health.
Learning Abstract :
The goal of the project is to develop a pedagogy of dreaming (or a "dream pedagogy") that is interconnected and multilayered around interlocution/risk-sharing, transformation/resilience, and imagination/flourishing.