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Faculty Roundtable Discussion:  Pedagogy of Liberation, a Palestinian Perspective: Cultivating new ways to engage each other in a context of conflict

In this session, Sami Basha will explore his own personal reflections on a "Pedagogy of Liberation". His personal engagement with this pedagogy raises ideas about how we may critically understand the identity, history, fears, doubts, hopes and liberty of individuals who have been living under oppression in a context of conflict. Through critical understanding, the "Pedagogy of Liberation" offers a way to better understand the roles and relationship between oppressed and oppressors and between hate and love to cultivate more constructive norms and ways through which we engage each other.  Sami will draw his own experience as a Palestinian and an international educator to explore these ideas.

Sami Basha, is a visiting Fulbright Scholar to the Searle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning working on research to promote critical thinking skills in the Palestinian higher education.

*Please free to bring your lunch.

 **Registration required.  Please register here.

*** Current workshop location is not wheelchair accessible.  If you need wheelchair access please let us know and we will do our best to find an accessible location