To understand the nature of the Occupy Free Skule, we
must also
understand the larger contexts within which we all
exist,
work, and form resistance.
The pedagogy of the mainstream, institutional
education
system revolves around respect for authority, the
creation of indifference, and the establishment
of hierarchy.
We are taught
social roles that we must
fill, and learn to specialize our
knowledge into as narrow a focus as possible.
This
type of education
dispossesses
people of
their
knowledge and
history,
imposing a culture
of
domination.
Nowhere
is this more apparent
than
the relations of colonialism and
imperialist
expansion. How did Canada’s
residential
schools work to suppress First Nations?
How
does Canada’s current education system continue this
process of active disappearance? How do we resist?
We actively challenge th s pedagogy, using education as a tool for
self-liberation and collective
resistance!
To live is to know - we intend to place life,
community life, back at the
center of education.
We promote a diversity of methods
and knowledges, using
discussions and first hand
experience as our learning guides.
Teachers and students work together to learn and
teach...
