Book Discussion w/ Aziz Choudry | "Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools" [London, UK]

The Ella Baker School of Transformative Organising is hosting a meeting on Thursday 21st June 6-8pm at the National Education Union (NEU) Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BD

Dr. Aziz Choudry will be discussing his new book, Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements, and helping to facilitate a discussion on the relevance of historical materials in political education. This event fulfills the tradition of the school in helping facilitate inter-movement dialogue in shaping activist education.

We are grateful for colleagues at the NEU for providing a room for this event

Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools

Edited by Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally

How do educators and activists in today’s struggles for change use historical materials from earlier periods of organizing for political education? How do they create and engage with independent and often informal archives and debates? How do they ultimately connect this historical knowledge with contemporary struggles?

Aziz Choudry is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, where he is affiliated to the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation. He is author or co-author of several books including Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements (University of Toronto Press, 2015), and co-editor of Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Just Work? Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today (Pluto Press, 2015) and Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada (2016, PM Press). Choudry serves on the boards of the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal and the Global Justice Ecology Project.

If you wish to attend, please register here, and we will try to provide light refreshments. We look forward to you joining the conversation.