In this intensely powerful and personal new text, Michelle Fine widens the methodological imagination for students, educators, scholars, and researchers interested in crafting research with communities. Fine shares her struggles over the course of 30 years to translate research into policy and practice that can enhance the human condition and create a more just world.
In The Fight for America’s Schools, Barbara Ferman brings together a diverse
group of contributors to investigate how parents, communities, teachers, unions,
and students are mobilizing to oppose market-based reforms in education. Drawing
on a series of rich case studies, the book illustrates how disparate groups can
forge new alliances to work together toward common goals.
URBAN Education Node: Human Rights Webinar
Human Rights in Education Coalition-Building
The URBAN Ed Node has been working to launch coalition-building with human rights organizations and educators. We are hosting a Human Rights Webinar, to be held May 24, from 12pm-1:15pm Mountain Standard Time. We have 50 slots available for the webinar, so if you would like to attend, you will need to reserve your spot by going to the link below.
Attached is a flyer that explains how to access the webinar and who the presenters are, or see below.
We ask that you reserve your spot in the next couple of days, and then, after Monday, May 15, we welcome you to distribute it to your networks.
We also will distribute this to a few other human rights networks at that time.
We look forward to learning with human rights scholars how we as educators can support their organizing efforts, and we look forward to learning how schools are taking up productive human rights frameworks and practices.
Warmly,
The URBAN Ed Node Co-Chairs:
Sarah Hobson
Joy Howard
Ana Antunes
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The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement by Corey Dolgon (Editor), Tania D. Mitchell (Editor), Timothy K. Eatman (Editor)
Reviewing The Public Professor by M.V. Lee Badgett, NYU Press, 2016.
The URBAN Network invites you for its first Webinar on Critical Participatory Research (CPAR) When: February 3, 1:00 PM (MST) Who: Ana Antunes, University of Utah Julio Cammarota, Iowa State University Ben Kirschner, University of Colorado Chereta Madison, University of Colorado Maria Torre, City University of New York What: The Read more…
From Youth Organizers to Social Justice Activists? Experiences of Youth Organizers Transitioning to Adulthood documents the experiences of former youth organizers in Boston and identifies the ways in which they stay connected to social justice work as young adults. This report also discusses the challenges of staying connected to social Read more…
Scholars are increasingly expected to consider the wider public in their teaching and research activities, but with little to negative promotion incentive. In fact, finds Christopher Meyers, much of what academics do does not fit into the standard boxes of teaching, scholarship and service. Perhaps it’s time to replace these categories with a single Read more…
Starting an Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN) node gives you the opportunity to bring academics and community leaders together locally and be part of a national network where you can learn, share resources, and work together on the basis of common values. URBAN is building a new and exciting Read more…
Active Learning: Social Justice Education and Participatory Action Research
Dana Wright (Routledge)
This new book was published in Routledge’s Teaching/Learning Social Justice series. It is endorsed on the back cover by Mark Warren and Pedro Noguera and includes a forward by Lee Anne Bell.
Here is the table of contents and link to purchase the book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138821712[routledge.com]
Active Learning examines a participatory action research (PAR) project led by young people as a teaching and learning approach with implications for pedagogy, schools, educational policy and education reform and transformation. (more…)