Abstract

Transgressing Borders: Reimagining Education and the Role of Learning in Community is a multi-day gathering aimed at reimagining and bridging communities of knowledge. Through programming, it is our hope to generate space for educators, thinkers, and practitioners, from multiple backgrounds, to learn from each other while expanding networks of practice, action, resource, and healing.

We aspire to transgress campus-community barriers to center epistemic justice, experiential knowledge, relationship-building, and critical inquiry. The Office of Community Engaged Learning is partnering with SUNY New Paltz’s Social Justice Education program to create an incubator for place-based knowledge holders and formal educators to reimagine education through intergenerational and intercultural learning connections.

The program proposal aligns with the Institute’s goals of creating a public classroom for academic and place-based experts to cultivate relationships through learning, action, and reflection around crucial themes and contemporary challenges. Topics will include the following: Housing/Food Security & Justice, Abolition, Mind, Body, Health & Wellness, Epistemic Justice, Art-Making for Liberation. The gathering will also offer resource sharing through access to community advisors from multiple sectors in what we are calling our “community clinics.”