2021 Fall Forum: Four Lenses to Dismantle Oppressive Practices in the Classroom towards Freedom of Learning

Four Lenses to Dismantle Oppressive Practices in the Classroom towards Freedom of Learning

Ane Gonzalez Lara and Gaia Hwang

This session is a collaboration between faculty across different departments and schools. The proposal is to host a workshop or share the workshop facilitating tools with other faculty and administrators in the campus. This workshop is articulated around four lenses of inquiry that allow participants to analyze the systems of oppression present in their classroom settings. The lenses are inspired by feminist and critical pedagogies. The session will create opportunities to design, visualize and strategize an actionable plan aiming to dismantle these systems while taking into account the context of each participants’ department, classroom, institution and position of power.