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50.010 - University Learning Gardens: Cultivating the Margins, on Borrowed Land and Time

Sun, April 7, 3:30 to 5:30pm, University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for the Study of Education (OISE) - 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto

Session Type: Off-Site Visit

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University learning gardens are increasingly becoming familiar sights on North American campuses. In this off-site session, participants will visit a learning garden at OISE, University of Toronto and engage in an interactive, arts-based exploration of the ways in which gardening on the margins of the academy, on borrowed land and time, challenges whose knowledge and what knowledge, in this “post-truth era,” matters. Leading scholars in garden-based education will present diverse, interdisciplinary, and multimodal narratives from their research, repeatedly returning to ways in which campus gardens expose settler colonialism and the increasingly neoliberal restructuring of academy, potentially reproduce social and ecological injustices, yet can also cultivate regenerative, non-hierarchical, creative, and profoundly hopeful human and greater-than-human collectives.

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