As part of its effort to encourage student research, the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) will be offering a number of Research Praxis Fellowships for the coming academic year 2017-2018. The Awards are valued at $4,000 each and are for one semester only. To be eligible, you must be a full time registered doctoral student who has completed the First Exam but not yet completed the Second at the time of
RACE IN THE CLASSROOM…… Workshops on Exploring the Impact of Race and Racism on Teaching Wednesday, March 15th, 5:30-9PM Meet in Rm. 5414 Refreshments served from 5:30-6:00PM Are you a GC student who teaches or plans to? Do you want to explore the ways in which you’ve been racialized? Are you curious how this racialization affects the way you teach? If so, join us for an evening of workshops facilitated
At whose expense are service learning and diversity courses effective? Can U.S. education policy stop telling poor students what to do (and instead provide them with resources and opportunities)? How can we avoid reproducing oppressions in our social justice work in education? These are just some of the difficult and important questions addressed at this year’s AAC&U Annual Meeting, “Building Trust in the Promise of Liberal Education.” Without a doubt,
The Futures Initiative is sponsoring a Teach In/Learn In on Tuesday, November 15, 11-1 in room 3317 to address issues of relevance to our students in the wake of this year’s election. Please bring ideas, syllabi, lesson plans, assignments, actions, and art. How do we create a space for CUNY students to talk about the election? All are welcome to participate in a constructive, activist conversation and interdisciplinary syllabus-building collaboration. Begin contributing
The deadline for the upcoming special issues of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy has been extended to June 15. See the CFP below from their website. Call for Papers The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Special Issue: Challenging the Boundaries of the ePortfolio: Digital Spaces and Digital Pedagogy Issue Editors: Anne Donlon, Emory University Amanda Licastro, Stevenson University Dominique Zino, LaGuardia Community College This issue of JITP
Congratulations to Kandice Chuh, who was recently elected President of the American Studies Association! Read the full list of newly-elected officials here. Professor Chuh, who co-taught one of the fall 2015 Futures Initiative courses, “Encountering Cuba,” with Professor Sujatha Fernandes, has generously granted us permission to repost her statement from the American Studies Association election booklet. The statement offers a gorgeous meditation on the contemporary possibilities for education in a moment of widespread injustice and
American Literature, American Learning AGENDA Wednesday, March 2 Homework Come to class having read and commented on everyone’s syllabi For Danica to bring Printed copies of everyone’s syllabi Printed copies of this agenda Hang bag for markers Snacks Markers Giant post its 3/9 – Bloggers Kelly and Arinn 3/16 – Bloggers Nicky and Lisa 3/30 – Blogger Iris, 20 minute Zotero workshop 4/13 – Blogger Erica and Josh 4/20 –
American Literature, American Learning February 17, 2016 6:30-8:30 Course Website Syllabus Themed Readings: Education as Empowerment, Education as Social Control: Two Competing Theories of Education Focus on Gender and Colonialism Women’s Education Rush, Benjamin. Thoughts Upon Female Education, 1787 in Fraser The School in the United States: A Documentary History. 24-28. Rowson, Susanna. Charlotte Temple. New York: Oxford UP, 1986. 26 -33. Hsu, Hua. “The Year of the Imaginary Student.”
In a recent blog post, Cathy N. Davidson wrote: “There are personal, cultural, learning, and social reasons people don’t speak up in class. Students of color and women of all races, introverts, the non-conventional thinkers, those from poor previous educational backgrounds, returning or “nontraditional students,” and those from cultures where speaking out is considered rude not participatory are all likely to be silent in a class where collaboration by difference
American Literature, American Learning Feb 10, 2016 AGENDA 1. Inventory —project the Google Doc Begin with inventory and have everyone interview someone else and then add at least one or two SuperPowers to the list. Go around the room and read the new Superpowers. 2. Method –Array of texts is the fast dip into thinking about histories and theories and methods of learning and teaching all together. You don’t have
