Creative Inquiry for Classrooms, Communities, and Social Movements
Urban Education, Psychology, and the Public Science Project have joined forces to create an interdiscinplinary workshop in urban education, focused on diversity, equity, and social justice. The goal of this three-part series workshop is to develop non-traditional strategies to better understand students beyond the walls of the classroom.
Teachers will receive 6 hours of CTLE credits per workshop and lunch is provided!
Ask your principal to sponsor your registration. Register here for any one session or register for all at once, only 25 seats are open in each workshop.
Below is a brief description of each workshop.
In this hands-on workshop participants learn to design and implement photography projects with young people, making their voices and intentions central. Experiment with new ways to see, listen to and interpret photographs taken by youth. The workshop is aimed at helping adults be more self-aware and reflective about the assumptions they bring to working with young people.
Register now for Workshop 1 Collaborative Seeing: Adapting Photo-Voice
This workshop delves in to what it means to create research for public good in the borderlands between the universities and the communities that surround them. Using examples of projects in NYC and beyond, we will dive into ethics, theory and methods of CPAR and discuss the tensions and possibilities of engaging research designed to not only produce knowledge, but transform the unjust conditions that shape our lives.
Register now for Workshop 2 Critical Participatory Action Research as Public Science
This workshop is for health practitioners working in schools, correctional facilities, etc., will braid neuroscience, educational practice, social and cultural theory with aesthetics/performance to examine where race, dis-ease and structural violence erupt and where resistance is galvanized.
Register now for Workshop 3 Psychological Dis-ease Swelling in Contentious Times
Sponsors
This program is offered in partnership by the Office of Academic Initiatives and Strategic Innovation at The Graduate Center, CUNY.