Navigating University Settings & Teaching: Collective Memory Work as Research-based Learning and_or as a Participatory Emancipatory Research Method
In the context of university settings CMW can not only be understood as a political and educational method, but also as a research method and respectively as a form of research-based learning. The central question for this workshop arises from the difference between the political-movement-oriented contexts in which CMW was developed and the institutional, less flexible framework of the (present-day) university.
We both use CMW in university settings and we are both located in the discipline of social pedagogy. Mia-Charlott plans to use CMW in university teaching with social work students and can draw on her experiences of the role as student and participant in CMW workshops.
Alena uses CMW (primarily) as a research method together with social work students to explore their experiences in their studies with them but did not plan to use it as a teaching method/tool. Until she was addressed as a teacher in her research workshops and since then has to deal with several (ascribed) roles and thereby upcoming conflicts and challenges. And maybe emerging chances?
In our workshop we would like to try to combine our two different perspectives on and approaches to Collective Memory Work in university settings and explore their differences, their similarities, and intersections and how they might complement and_or contradict one another.
In dialog we would like to discuss: How do we use CMW in university setting? With what aims? Which benefits do we see? Which challenges do we meet?
On the basis of our two PhD projects and our experiences in CMW workshops we would like to invite you to discuss challenges and chances of using CMW in university settings with us and to think about (im)possibilities of using it as a teaching tool in universities.
Contact
mia.bohnet@uni-hamburg.de
alena.rauch@ph-freiburg.de