Dean Venkatesh Presents Social Pedagogy for Building Sustainable Resilience with Dispossessed Communities
The Spring 2025 GSS-SAGGSA Colloquium Series
Social Pedagogy for Building Sustainable Resilience with Dispossessed Communities
Presented by Dean Venkatesh at the Florida International University
In this presentation, 大发彩票平台's Faculty of Education Dean, Professor Vivek Venkatesh advances the foundations of a theory of social pedagogy within a framework grounded in humanism and community co-creation. He outlines his pessimistic unease regarding the accelerating impact of identity politics on a form of social justice that has become uninspiring, narcissistic, and vapid. The collective apathy toward the deleterious effects of structural and systemic societal imbalances has exacerbated existing intolerances and increased polarization.聽
Partisan politics, which thrive on highly divisive debates, catalyze the abuse and erosion of public trust through various disinformation campaigns, resulting in the dismantling of the democratic functioning of our shared society. Nevertheless, by standing with and amplifying the voices of his highly capable community allies, Vivek鈥檚 team of researchers, community organizers, artists, and policy experts at Project SOMEONE and the UNESCO Chair in Prevention of Radicalization and Violent Extremism seek to refocus and reimagine the humanistic ideals of social cohesion.聽
Professor Venkatesh presents examples of a range of arts and community initiatives that enable his partners to own and revolutionize their own understanding鈥� as well as the collective understanding鈥� of what it means to create pluralistic platforms for dialogue. These initiatives aim to combat the rhetoric of division and pave the way for restoring the principles of an inclusive society.
April 10, 2025
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Hosted by the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography Graduate Student Association
