Education Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM)
EdJAM is a network of researchers, educators and civil society organisations working in the arts, education and heritage. We are committed to creative ways to teach and learn about the violent past in order to build more just futures.
EdJAM is funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Funding (GCRF) Collective Programme.
What we do EdJAM events
Join our upcoming events
Hashiya Frames of Resistance: A Creative Storytelling Workshop (Online / Birmingham)
An interactive workshop offering a unique opportunity to explore and reflect on the creative processes behind Shehri Pakistan’s work on the Hashiya project.
Location: Online & in-person at The University of Birmingham
Date: September 16, 2023 10:00 am GMT
Hashiya Frames of Resistance: Animated film screenings and discussion (Birmingham)
You are invited to join us for a screening of animated shorts developed by Shehri Pakistan as part of the team’s history education platform, Hashiya.
Location: The University of Birmingham
Date: September 15, 2023 5:30 pm GMT
Hashiya Frames of Resistance: Animated film screenings and discussion (Bristol)
You are invited to join us for a screening of animated shorts developed by Shehri Pakistan as part of the team’s history education platform, Hashiya.
Location: School of Education, University of Bristol
Date: September 18, 2023 5:30 pm GMT
Hashiya Frames of Resistance: Animated film screenings and discussion (Exeter)
You are invited to join us for a screening of animated shorts developed by Shehri Pakistan as part of the team’s history education platform, Hashiya.
Location: University of Exeter (Penryn campus)
Date: September 20, 2023 10:00 am GMT
Our Projects
EdJAM commissions collaborative research on teaching and learning about the violent past
AnimationHashiya: Revisiting Violent Histories
Hashiya is an alternative histories project with the goal of creating accessible audio-visual critical thinking and educational material in Urdu and English…
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Publications, Visual arts‘Weaving resistance from mountain to mountain’: Peasant-to-peasant dialogue about traditional knowledge from an ethno-educational and oral perspective, to train 14–16-year-old students as record keepers, weavers and curators of collective memories and traditional practices.
'Weaving resistance from mountain to mountain'. We seek to strengthen the memory project of the Luis Ernesto Puyana Educational Institution (IELEP, located…
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Exhibitions, Video/Film, CurriculumEmbracing Social Identities
Multimodal pedagogical resources exploring the gender minorities in Pakistan. Encompassing three main themes: an introduction to the communities through…
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Video/Film, Publications, Visual artsGraphics to decolonise memory: creative pedagogies among the street, the village, and the academia.
The topic investigated by our project is the collective creation of posters as a counter-hegemonic pedagogical tool, to narrate the memory of injustice…
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ExhibitionsMobile exhibition in Post conflict Northern Uganda
In Uganda, our partners the Uganda National Museum and the National Memory and Peace Documentation Centre (NMPDC) have developed a mobile exhibition that…
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Curriculum, Phone App, PublicationsUprooted: co-creating an educational timeline addressing the violent past
Investigating to what extent the historical enquiry of multiple perspectives on the violent past affects secondary school teachers’ and students’ knowledge…
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Latest updates from the EdJAM network
Audio broadcastsBlogJAM: Nuestra Orilla launches an eight-episode podcast series that tells the story of the Bajo Atrato region.
In August 2023, the Co-creation of Storytelling and Listening Pedagogies for Peacebuilding in Colombia project, launched their podcast series Nuestra Orilla.…
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Events, News/BlogsBlogJAM: Latin America Regional Encuentro – Four Days of Mutual Learning and Good Vibes
The EdJAM regional event in Bogota, Colombia, was a resounding success. During the last week of July, colleagues from all the EdJAM-funded projects in…
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Exhibitions, Video/Film, Visual artsPalabreras & Callejeras: Bogotá art exhibition video
A short video recording the 2023 Palabreras & Callejeras art exhibition in Bogotá, Colombia. The art exhibition was a collective creation of posters,…
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Video/Film, News/BlogsBlogJAM: U Yich lu ùm-School for life video: Community learning, life territories and agroecology
@Uyichluum is a grassroots organization located in Sanahcat, Yucatán, whose bids are #communitylearning, #lifeterritories and agroecology.
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Video/Film, News/BlogsExperiential activity Higher Normal School Antonio Mentruyt
The third video from our the Intimate Cartographies in Community project. Deconstructing the idea that the past and the present are disconnected with…
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