We would like to thank everyone who came down to the INOSAAR Glocal Academy Posuban (GAP) in Oxford launch on the 12th of May 2024. It was great to gain local community interest, as well as students (undergrad and postgrad students). Participants emphasised the need for a community interface where we organise and coordinate our own community-managed action-research agendas.
We also emphasised the challenges facing students with research agendas being dictated and plans curtailed, changing the terms of students' research, affecting and undermining academic freedom and the creativity of students to represent their own community issues and ideas and work on education that is empowering and helps to provide practical solutions for real life problems.
There was also a refreshing meeting of the working class Black Afrikan Oxford community and students both from the African Society and the Afro-Caribbean Society, from different parts of the continent and diaspora.
A base plan was agreed to begin work on the following points:
Promoting community initiatives to be better connected and amplified to students.
To work on building a proper organisational platform with pre-existing student societies and progressive academics of good conscience, and to invite members from student societies and JCRs to liaise organically with the GAP and to build collaborations around community-driven education initiatives.
It also emphasised the need for education and pedagogy to be truly decolonised embrace different cultural expressions such as food, dance, cultural activities, as well as to commit to interfaith dialogue and work with different faith groups, and to build better dialogue between these different demographics within the town and city of Oxford.
INOSAAR GAP will be working to promote upcoming activities and to formalise a working organisational platform structure for the GAP in Oxford.
With abundant blessings to all who supported, we'll continue to share and amplify upcoming news. GAP Oxford
Email at : inosaarox@protonmail.com
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