Identity, Difference & Global Learning

Global learning is often predicated on better understanding difference and finding meaningful connections across race, culture, experience and geography. The problem, though, is that many of us aren’t quite sure how to do this given our own complex identities, the long-standing inequities we travel through, and our fraught political context domestically. This class will help us situate global learning within these debates, and offer skills and tools for practitioners to practice and take back to their contexts.

Some of the questions we will grapple with include: When we say global travel, what exactly do we mean? Is travel required for global learning? Is global learning inherent with travel? How far must one go to be a global citizen? How does who we are affect our journeys through and toward global learning? This workshop will build on key frameworks in postcolonial studies, liberation pedagogies and transnational feminism to answer these questions, and help us get more comfortable with discomfort, nuance and complexity. Let us speak with more clarity and courage about the complicated world we live in, learn about and travel through.