The video below features Ethics Working Group members Ron Glass, Sheeva Sabati, and Joyce King. It serves as a companion to the graphic visualization that was created during the Ethics working group session at the National URBAN conference held April 30-May 1, 2015. Learn more about the conference and access the full set of Read more…
A collaboration of local scholars will convene a conference on school closures on June 19 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA from 8:30am-6:00pm in Stiteler Hall. Registration is open to the public and is a $15 suggested donation to be collected at the event (nobody will be turned away for lack of funds). The conference is entitled The “State of the Research” on School Closure: A Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference and will bring together researchers who are working across this range of inquiry in the mid-Atlantic region. The goal of this conference is to share findings and approaches, articulate commonalities and divergences across place, and set an agenda for ongoing research and engagement with this and other issues of urban and educational equity. (more…)
Active Learning: Social Justice Education and Participatory Action Research 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. This book was written by Dana E. Wright and published by Routledge in March 2015. (more…)
On April 30th and May 1st, the first national URBAN gathering took place at UMASS Boston. Forty-five scholars from across the country gathered for a 2-day working conference on “Collaborative Research for Equity and Action in Education.” Funded by a grant from the American Educational Research Association, the conference was designed to bring together scholars who practice different forms of action research to share lessons, identify commonalities and clarify differences in this diverse research tradition. According to Mark Warren, “the URBAN conference came at the right time. Scholars are increasingly looking for ways for their research to be more relevant to addressing pressing needs facing urban communities. Participants left with a stronger understanding of the ways that research can work together with community change agents in support of equity and social justice goals.” (more…)
The URBAN Education Node is pleased to announce that it will host several sessions at the 2015 AERA Annual meeting to be held April 16-April 20 in Chicago, Illinois. Click here for full information!
How can colleges and universities build capacity for civic engagement and civic development? Previous monographs in the Civic Series have examined various ways of achieving this purpose—strengthening student learning, involving the faculty, and establishing campus-community partnerships. Civic Engagement, Civic Development, and Higher Education, the fourth in the series, focuses on the instrumental role of leadership and highlights the importance of individuals who are integral to the building process. (more…)
The Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN) has received a grant from the American Educational Research Association to host a conference on “Collaborative Research for Action and Equity in Education.” This invitation-only, working conference will be held April 30th – May 1st at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Prior to Read more…
On January 24, 2015 the URBAN Philadelphia Node, the St. Joseph’s University Education Unit, Teacher Action Group (TAG), Caucus of Working Educators (WE), and Teachers Lead Philly will host a convening on leveraging quality research in support of equitable and democratic public education in Philadelphia. Researchers and teachers concerned about the current Read more…
The Fall 2014/Winter 2015 Newsletter of the Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC) is now available! See below for a quick overview of its contents. Click here to access the newsletter. All CCREC newsletters can be found here.
Fall 2014/Winter 2015 Newsletter Contents:
Featured Advisory Board Member: Victor Rubin, Vice President for Research at PolicyLink in Oakland, CA, on research for equitable and dynamic urban policies.
Featured Fellow: Michael Montoya, Associate Professor at UC Irvine, discusses power, privilege, and the possibilities for community generated knowledge.
Message from the Director, Ron Glass: “The Magical CCREC Crew”
CCREC Highlights:
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The 2014 Lynton Colloquium on the Scholarship of Engagement was held on September 15, 2014, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Hosted by NERCHE and the Center for Engaged Democracy (CED) at Merrimack College, the Annual Lynton Colloquium launched a new research initiative aimed at studying key community engagement issues identified by a crowd-sourcing methodology and input from Colloquium participants. Grounded in the work of NERCHE’s Next Generation Engagement project and CED’s focus on academic programs in civic engagement, the Lynton Colloquium and the Request for Proposals which grew out of the meeting seek to foster sustained and systematic investigations that will support deeper understandings of and clearer actions around critical issues in advancing community engaged scholarship. (more…)