PDC01: Community Learning Exchange: Using Transformative Pedagogies for Research and Practice (Day 1 of 2)

Session Type: Professional Development Course

Abstract

This two-day course is specifically designed as a Community Learning Exchange (CLE) that focuses on a deeper understanding of how to engage community members as key partners in research and practice. The session expands our conceptions of community scholars and activist scholarship. A CLE is a process that honors the power of place and context while acknowledging and lifting the wisdom of people. The learning experience is designed to be experiential and interactive by using the processes from Community Learning Exchange (CLE) pedagogies. We will fully engage participants and community partners as co-researchers for the two-day session by modeling and enacting co-research as an epistemological stance and a democratic methodology. Participants will learn specific CLE strategies (pedagogies) and processes for activist scholarship by engaging on Day 1 with each other and by participating in a co-learning/collaborative research opportunity with a community organization in Washington, DC, on Day 2.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development and Training Committee

Instructors

• Lynda Tredway, Institute for Educational Leadership

• Matthew C. Militello, East Carolina University

• Miguel Angel Guajardo, Texas State University - San Marcos

• Francisco Guajardo, The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

• Christopher A. Janson, University of North Florida

• Gretchen Givens Generett, University of Pittsburgh