What we Discussed: Discerning our Mission and Critical, Anti-Colonial(?) Commitments

February 14, 2020

Following significant discernment and eight years of accomplishments, The Globalsl Network settled on an updated mission statement, “to advance ethical, critical, and aspirationally decolonial community-based learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.” Recently, colleagues from around the world gathered to discuss how that can become tractable. The discussion, conducted in the open, discursive spirit characteristic of the Globalsl Network, is below. It begins with an overview, before plunging into sustained discussion of the mission and consideration of the utility of a Fair Trade Learning Self Assessment as part of moving that mission forward.