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TSI is the primer and professional institute of the global justice movement. Join now and support TSI.
- Owen Hoppe, Owner, New Ethic Cafe, veg friendly restaurant, Burlington, VT
TSI will greatly benefit the global social justice movement, it is an important institute for activists from all walks of life.
- Sarat Colling, Vancouver Island Vegetarian Association
The Transformative Studies Institute was born out of necessity, as transnational politics continues to be driven by the imperatives of capital, and as the earth continues to become a giant sewer. The Institute is designed to foster the kind of critical praxis that can conjugate hope with struggle and bring about a world organized around principles of equality and social justice and driven by a desire for peace and for bringing about the conditions for human dignity.
- Dr. Peter McLaren, UCLA, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
No social justice movement will succeed if the intelligentsia is cloistered in ivory towers, alienated from the activists who need them for education and guidance. The radical world has an abundance of theory, but a dearth of praxis. The Transformative Studies Institute (TSI), where scholarship and activism intersect, is the catalyst that is transforming theory into action!
- Jason Miller, Editor, Thomas Paine's Corner and Associate Editor, Cyrano's Journal Online
In a time of unfettered war, environmental destruction, and an economic crisis of late capitalism, the Transformative Studies Institute has become an avenue for scholars committed to social and ecological justice to explore alternatives to the current social order. As our universities become increasingly run by neo-liberal logic, TSI has emerged as a way in which to combat this ideology and provide ways in which we can resist this corporatization of our lives, and ultimately, our souls.
- Dr. Abraham P. DeLeon, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester
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The Transformative Studies Institute (TSI) fosters interdisciplinary research that will bridge multidisciplinary theory with activism in order to encourage community involvement that will attempt to alleviate social problems. As part of the mission, scholars, activists, and other concerned individuals in fields such as social sciences, humanities, and law will be invited to conduct research and become involved in like-minded various grass roots organizations. The Institute is concerned with issues of social justice and related activism, and its aim is to provide a working model of theory in action, through shared research, governance, and operation of the center. As such, the institute may provide a working laboratory for evolutionary socioeconomic forms of organization. Further, we invite literary participation through our independent, peer-reviewed journal Theory in Action, through which research associates, scholars, activists, and students may disseminate their research and expand thematic social dialogue. TSI also welcomes opportunities to work with national and international scholars who serve as research associates and fellows. In addition, the institute plans on collaborating with various worker education programs, labor centers, universities, think-tanks, advocacy groups and non-profit organizations. TSI is managed and operated by a dedicated global team of academic scholar-activists, grassroots activists, and the concerned public. Many of TSI’s members have multiple graduate degrees, multiple years of secondary and college level teaching experience throughout most disciplines. TSI also provides consulting services, custom policy papers/projects, etc.
TSI Principles and Policy Positions
‘No one is free unless we are all free’
We do not believe in the privatization of socially important goods and services e.g. education, health care, utilities, transportation, public infrastructure, military, housing, social services.
What we do believe in:
· The supremacy of community decision making over corporate governance
· Free and equal public education at all levels and the elimination of all private educational institutions
· No corporate governance/involvement in news media and the creation of an independent public foundation with tax funds to finance free and independent journalism
· All laws providing full and equal treatment to all individuals and groups regardless of any and all characteristics
· Sustainable development and the use of renewable resources for the protection of the environment
· Family planning and a woman’s right to make her own reproductive decisions with the availability of the required services
· Zero tolerance policies for conflicts of interests for government positions at all levels
· Zero political patronage positions at all levels of government
· Zero corporate involvement in the political process at all levels
· Proportional representation and the elimination of the Electoral College
· Free not for profit universal quality comprehensive health care as a human right
· A minimum living/family wage and job security laws
· Fair Trade
· Guaranteed universal quality housing
· No taxation of any kind on a primary residence
· Direct action to foster meaningful change and social justice
In order to achieve these goals TSI believes we must change how people perceive the world around them in order to foster fundamental and thus meaningful change. This requires objective information and a process of transformative learning. Transformative learning goes beyond the mere acquisition of factual knowledge. It seeks to positively impact participants by empowering them with skills that develop their awareness and initiative and to also help them create meaningful learning in their lives. It involves questioning assumptions, beliefs, and values, as well as considering multiple viewpoints. Transformative learning inspires action for change by questioning and challenging what is valued. It emerged from such theoretical models as Jack Mezirow’s perspective transformation, which was influenced in turn by Paulo Freire’s conscientization, a process by which people "achieve a deepening awareness of both the sociocultural reality which shapes their lives and… [develop] their capacity to transform that reality through action upon it". Additional influences include Robert Merton’s theory of the middle range, and Juergen Habermas’ emancipatory action.
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