Recasting solidarity: a call for radical engagement and academic unification

Abstract

The acknowledgement and attention to the global pandemics has caused shifts in every field beyond imagination. As educators witnessing the impacts of the shifts, heightened exposure of equity in education continues to be highlighted and the urgency for engagements established in solidarity. In this article, I emphasize how institutionalized practices can provide a resurgence of engagement for scholars seeking to break with cultured neoliberal education that is progressively overshadowed by personal objectives and external advantages. Seemingly, while education is being contextualized as a benefit for the individual instead of being valued as part of a larger network of thought, I encourage scholars to recast solidarity. As educational practices continue to evolve, the collective desire to improve methods of teaching, learning and leading hubs of social change is constant. Recasting the approach of change through a solidarity lens can come in many constructive forms while being open to other ideas that may provide a different lens in working in unison for equity during the current socio-political times.

Keywords:

• Advocacy
• COVID-19
• engagement
• neoliberalism
• recasting solidarity

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Soribel Genao

Soribel Genao is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at CUNY, Queens College.