21ST CENTURY EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES SIG
WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES; CONFRONTING RACIAL CAPITALISM, PATRIARCHY, MILITARISM, AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS SIG
DESCRIPTION
Our SIG was started by The Alternatives Project (TAP), formed in 2019 by 20 CIES members as a diverse, transnational collective of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned with building a global collective critical voice-oriented towards education and societal transformation. TAP envisions and works towards a radical rethinking of education and society globally. We intend this SIG to provide a home for CIES members who are critical of the systems and structures that continue to yield worldwide poverty and inequality, entrenched racism and patriarchy, accelerating climate chaos, and the constant presence of wars. We must seize this unique historical moment to reconceive and radically change public education as an entry point for deeper transformations that will build human solidarity and cooperation and bring an end to racism, patriarchy, and capitalism. We welcome all interested CIES members to join us with a special welcome for those members from the Global South and minoritized communities!
2024-2025 SIG OFFICERS
- Frank Adamson, California State University, USA: Co-Chair. adamson@csus.edu
- Carol Anne Spreen, New York University, USA: Co-Chair. spreen@nyu.edu
- Virginia Gomes, University of Maryland, USA: Secretary/Treasurer. vigomes@umd.edu
ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS
Please visit https://www.thealternativesproject.org/ for more information about ongoing activities.
CONTACT AND SOCIALS
To contact the SIG directly, connect using their email and socials, posted below!
Email: CIES21CenAltSIG@gmail.com
Website: https://www.thealternativesproject.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1320545121646038
Twitter: @TAPinitiative
Instagram: @thealternativesproject