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PSU Critical Pedagogies Symposium: Registration Open & Call for Proposals

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Registration Open & Call for Proposals

There’s still time to submit a proposal to present and time to register to participate in the upcoming symposium on Pedagogies of Critical Community-Based Learning. This Symposium is ideal for anyone who is interested in the intersections between community-based learning and social justice education. Free registration.

For more information, please visit the Symposium website.

TOWARD PEDAGOGIES OF CRITICAL COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING SYMPOSIUM

Date: Friday, November 4, 9am – 4:30pm
Location: Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland State University

Purpose

To illuminate the power inequalities that undergird community-based learning and promote community engagement pedagogies that are rooted in social justice ideals and values.

Objectives
  • To politicize community engagement and to engender “justice learning” at the intersection of community-based learning and social justice education
  • To provide a space for practitioners to come together and exchange insights about how to effectively conceptualize, implement, and assess community-based learning that is critical of the status quo and that challenges unjust structures and systems of oppression
Potential Session Themes/Topics
  • Online critical community-based learning
  • Care, critical consciousness, and social justice sense-making; culturally responsive/sensitive engagement; authentic relationships; best practices
  • Assessment (partnership and/or learning)
  • Publishing
  • Faculty development: “train the trainer”
  • Please share widely and join us!