CLSEW
Centre for Learning, Social Economy and Work (CLSEW) Events
Learning, dialectics and subjectivity: Jean Lave in Conversation with Peter Sawchuk
Friday, March 22 2024 from 5:00 – 6:30 pm EST in the OISE Library
Reception from 6:30 – 8:00 pm EST in the Nexus Lounge
The Centre for Learning, Social Economy and Work (CLSEW) is delighted to welcome Jean Lave for a sit down conversation with OISE Professor Peter Sawchuk to discuss her latest insights into future of approaches to a critical politics of learning as changing practice. The lecture will be chaired by special guest Dr. Michael Bernhard from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
The American anthropologist Jean Lave served as a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She has studied education and schooling in pre-industrial societies and, through comparisons with the corresponding American conditions, she has pioneered approaches to learning as social participation. Most prominently this approach has been formulated in the famous book Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation which she published together with Etienne Wenger in 1991; a book that, as of 2024, has been cited over 100,000 times by scholars around the world. Among her many awards and honorary degrees, in 2013 she was honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Psychological Anthropology.
Event Chair: Special Guest Dr. Michael Bernhard (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Peter H. Sawchuk is a professor of Adult Education and Workplace Learning at OISE.
The Jack Quarter Lectureship on Social Economy: “Solidarity Economies, Direct Democracy, and Lifelong Learning: Lessons from Argentina” by Dr. Ana Inés Heras
Saturday, March 23rd from 9:00 – 10:30 am EST in the OISE Library
Reception from 10:30 – 11:00 am EST in the OISE Library
Abstract: My goal in this presentation is twofold, conceptual, and methodological. On the one hand, I intend to address the concepts of solidarity economies, direct democracies and lifelong processes for accessing social justice and human rights, as they relate to the Argentinean experience. In doing so, I will simultaneously present issues that need to be looked at both from a long-and-mid-historical perspective, as well as a perspective based in our current daily lives, for which our team works with an interdisciplinary perspective. Argentina has recently experienced a change of administration, which provides a point of observation that can inform our analyses as scholar-activists and as responsible workers in our communities. Since my hope is to provide enough background information, as well as analytic tools to open a dialogue with the audience, I will also present some details of our co-elaborative methodology, based on work conducted with organizations in the social solidarity economy and cooperative sector. Our perspective as a team positions our academic work as part of a larger network and coalition of ideas and actions, situated in transformational social justice and human rights.
Presenter Bio: Ana Inés Heras is a National Researcher at the National Research Council (CONICET), Argentina and also a Professor at the National University of San Martín where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of her specialty and where she coordinates the Research Program entitled ”Learning with Self Governed Groups“. She earned her MA and PhD at the University of California, Santa Bárbara, on a Fulbright scholarship at the Graduate School of Education, with an emphasis on Ethnography and Sociolinguistics. She has been developing co-elaborative research processes with workers ́cooperatives, social solidarity economy groups and community organizations for the past twenty-five years. She is also the President of the Instituto para la Inclusión Social y el Desarrollo Humano, and acts as a Board Member in the Community Economies Institute. You can read her selected publications here.
The Jack Quarter Lectureship on the Social Economy is in memory of the late Professor Jack Quarter, who passed away in early 2019 as full professor in the Adult Education and Community Development program, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT).