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Keynote- Teaching and Learning as Acts of Justice: Constructing Classrooms as Spaces of Radical Love
Time:
Wednesday, 02/July/2025:
10:30am - 11:50am
Session Chair: Ann Lopez, University of Toronto, Canada
Location:JMS 438
Capacity: 500; Plenary and Symposium
Presentations
Keynote- Teaching and Learning as Acts of Justice: Constructing Classrooms as Spaces of Radical Love
Ann Lopez
University of Toronto, Canada
The 21st ISATT Biennial Conference is being held in a world that is rapidly changing, where norms are being challenged and new ways of being are emerging. In this context, some are questioning the role of education and schooling, teaching and learning in responding to this change. As we think about the moment we find ourselves in, the kind of teaching that will be needed to support and sustain students, and have positive impact on communities we are reminded of the bell hooks quote “the classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy”. As educators navigate new realities, the possibilities that teaching and learning in diverse classrooms offer to be a force for transformative change, towards a more just and equitable world must be amplified. In this endeavour teachers must be supported to sustain a path that challenges “taken for granted” norms, and think about new futurities in teaching and learning that centre teaching praxis embedded in a framework of justice for all.
