#pedagogies

[malick-elias]

Demarcations between Learning Strategies like EBL and Critical Pedagogies

Abstract Attending a teacher training event recently returned to the forefront of my mind questions such as the distinction between learning strategies that present themselves as pedagogies and pedagogy itself. My Phd dissertation was to combine together many elements from the Muslim intellectual tradition to develop Authentic Existential Pedagogies for the instruction of Muslim Secondary school…

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With The One with Everyone.

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Reclaiming Our Legacy

The following is a presentation delivered on the 28/07/2024 for the Jamatul Muslimeen Community in Trinidad and Tobago. Disclaimer: During the promotion of this talk at the social media level the leaflet addressed myself as a “professor.” I do not have any such titles and I conveyed to the organisers that they could use Shaykh or Doctor, both together or none at all. I seldom promote titles…

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[fatehbaz]

The rise of the European empires [...] required new forms of social organization, not least the exploitation of millions of people whose labor powered the growth of European expansion [...]. These workers suffered various forms of coercion ranging from outright slavery through to indentured or convict labor, as well as military conscription, land theft, and poverty. [...] [W]ide-ranging case studies [examining the period from 1600 to 1850] [...] show the variety of working conditions and environments found in the early modern period and the many ways workers found to subvert and escape from them. [...] A web of regulation and laws were constructed to control these workers [...]. This system of control was continually contested by the workers themselves [...]

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Timothy Coates [...] focuses on three locations in the Portuguese empire and the workers who fled from them. The first was the sugar plantations of São Tomé in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The slaves who ran away to form free communities in the interior of the island were an important reason why sugar production eventually shifted to Brazil. Secondly, Coates describes working conditions in the trading posts around the Indian Ocean and the communities of runaways which formed in the Bay of Bengal. The final section focuses on convicts and sinners in Portugal itself, where many managed to escape from forced labor in salt mines.

Johan Heinsen examines convict labor in the Danish colony of Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Denmark awarded the Danish West Indies and Guinea Company the right to transport prisoners to the colony in 1672. The chapter illustrates the social dynamics of the short-lived colony by recounting the story of two convicts who hatched the escape plan, recruited others to the group, including two soldiers, and planned to steal a boat and escape from the island. The plan was discovered and the two convicts sentenced to death. One was forced to execute the other in order to save his own life. The two soldiers involved were also punished but managed to talk their way out of the fate of the convicts. Detailed court records are used to show both the collective nature of the plot and the methods the authorities used to divide and defeat the detainees.

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James F. Dator reveals how workers in seventeenth-century St. Kitts Island took advantage of conflict between France and Britain to advance their own interests and plan collective escapes. The two rival powers had divided the island between them, but workers, indigenous people, and slaves cooperated across the borders, developing their own knowledge of geography, boundaries, and imperial rivalries [...].

Nicole Ulrich writes about the distinct traditions of mass desertions that evolved in the Dutch East India Company colony in South Africa. Court records reveal that soldiers, sailors, slaves, convicts, and servants all took part in individual and collective desertion attempts. [...] Mattias von Rossum also writes about the Dutch East India Company [...]. He [...] provides an overview of labor practices of the company [...] and the methods the company used to control and punish workers [...].

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In the early nineteenth century, a total of 73,000 British convicts were sentenced to be transported to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). There, the majority were rented out as laborers to private employers, and all were subjected to surveillance and detailed record keeping. These records allow Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan to provide a detailed statistical analysis of desertion rates in different parts of the colonial economy [...].

When Britain abolished the international slave trade, new forms of indentured labor were created in order to provide British capitalism with the labor it required. Anita Rupprecht investigates the very specific culture of resistance that developed on the island of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands between 1808 and 1828. More than 1,300 Africans were rescued from slavery and sent to Tortola, where officials had to decide how to deal with them. Many were put to work in various forms of indentured labor on the island, and this led to resistance and rebellion. Rupprecht uncovers details about these protests from the documents of a royal commission that investigated [...].

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All text above by: Mark Dunick. "Review of Rediker, Marcus; Chakraborty, Titas; Rossum, Matthias van, eds. A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850". H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews. April 2024. Published at: h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58852 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[malick-elias]

Book Review:

Handbook of Islamic Education Holler Daun and Raza Arjmand eds. Handbook of Islamic Education, 2018. 1st ed., Vol., 7, Springer Inter’ Publishing, ISBN 978-3-319-64682-4 There are two reasons for writing this review. First, apart from introducing practictioners of Islamic Education to a very important source material for their discipline, the second goal is to give non-specialists in this field…

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[malick-elias]

Reminiscing early polemical arguments

Taken from ‘AnNukat’ by Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Nu’maan al-Baghdaadi (d.413AH/c.1022CE) In conversation with a friend at a local cafe last night, about the divine trace in everything and the extent to which it is concentrated in temporal beings like ourselves. The conversation shifted to explaining why despite “likeness” to our origins (God) we are but a contingent reflection and could…

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[malick-elias]

Making a Case for DIVERGENT THINKING pedagogies

For starters divergent thinking and critical thinking are two distinct cognitive processes that involve different approaches to problem-solving and idea generation. Divergent thinking is a thought process that involves generating multiple creative ideas or solutions to a given problem. It emphasizes the exploration of various possibilities and encourages unconventional thinking. Divergent…

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