Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy Session
Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies in the Classroom:
Multiple Perspectives, Multiple Objectives, Multiple Entry Points for Curriculum and Teaching
This workshop will focus on the teaching philosophy, learning objectives, and instructional designs of diverse educators who aspire for anti-oppressive teaching. The workshop will consist of a framing overview of Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies and Educator Equity Frameworks by Dr. Heffernan. This framing will highlight multiple pedagogic entry points to anti-oppressive pedagogy and provide two thinking models to teachers to help them consider curriculum and instructional practices that disrupt cultural domination and offer their students pathways toward greater freedom.
Following the overview, a diverse panel of teaching professionals will each share from their own work in relation to the topic. The goal of the panel is to provide us all with pedagogic multiplicity and space to envision new possibilities for equity, access, inclusion, and anti-oppression in teaching and learning.
Each panelist will share:
- Pedagogy Belief:
Panelist will share personal philosophy of their inclusive and anti-oppressive pedagogy. - Learning Objectives:
Panelist will share instructional objectives for learners. - Teaching Example:
Panelists will share one example strategy, activity, or lesson from your classroom that can help illustrate how you move from theory to practice
| ANTI-OPPRESSIVE PEDAGOGIES WORKSHOP SESSION I | ANTI_OPPRESSIVE PEDAGOGIES WORKSHOP SESSION II |
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Julie Heffernan: UOTeach Graduate Director and Faculty Alison Schmitke: Director Educational Foundations and UOTeach Faculty Sierra Dawson: Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Jason Schreiner: Assistant Director for Graduate Programs UO Teaching Engagement Program (TEP)
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Julie Heffernan: UOTeach Director and Faculty Michelle McKinley: UO Center for the Study of Women and Society CSWS Director Jose Cortez: UO English Faculty Tina Gutierez-Schmich: Bethel Equity Director and UOTeach Faculty Leah Dunbar: Faculty at Churchill High School and Eugene 4J Courageous Conversations Ethnic Studies founder |
Abolitionist Pedagogy Sessions
These sessions will be lead by Dr. Bettina Love
Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and Associate Professor of Educational Theory & Practice at the University of Georgia. Dr. Love is one of the field’s most esteemed educational researchers in the area of Hip Hop education. Her research focuses on the ways in which urban youth negotiate Hip Hop music and culture to form social, cultural, and political identities to create new and sustaining ways of thinking about urban education and intersectional social justice. Her work is also concerned with how teachers and schools working with parents and communities can build communal, civically engaged schools rooted in intersectional social justice for the goal of equitable classrooms.
For her work in the field, in 2016, Dr. Love was named the Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is also the creator of the Hip Hop civics curriculum GET FREE. In April of 2017, Dr. Love participated in a one-on-one public lecture with bell hooks focused on the liberatory education practices of Black and Brown children. In 2018, Georgia’s House of Representatives presented Dr. Love with a resolution for her impact on the field of education.
Dr. Love is a sought-after public speaker on a range of topics, including: antiblackness in schools, Hip Hop education, Black girlhood, queer youth, Hip Hop feminism, art-based education to foster youth civic engagement, and issues of diversity and inclusion. In 2014, she was invited to the White House Research Conference on Girls to discuss her work focused on the lives of Black girls. In addition, she is the inaugural recipient of the Michael F. Adams award (2014) from the University of Georgia. She has also provided commentary for various news outlets including NPR, The Guardian, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
She is the author of We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. Her work has appeared in numerous books and journals, including the English Journal, Urban Education, The Urban Review, and Journal of LGBT Youth. In 2017, Dr. Love edited a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies focused on the identities, gender performances, and pedagogical practices of Black and Brown lesbian educators. (from b.love website)
Anticolonial Pedagogy Sessions
These sessions will be lead by Dr. Leilani Sabzalian (Alutiiq)
Dr. Sabzalian is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies in Education and the Co-Director of the Sapsik’wałá Teacher Education Program at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on creating spaces to support Indigenous students and Indigenous self-determination in public schools, and preparing teachers to challenge colonialism in curriculum, policy, and practice. She is also dedicated to improving Indigenous education at in the state of Oregon by serving on the American Indian/Alaska Native State Advisory Council and strongly advocating for legislation such as Senate Bill 13, which requires and supports educators in teaching about tribal history and sovereignty in K-12 public schools.
Dr. Sabzalian newly published book, Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools, provides educators and administrators with case studies to understand how colonialism continues to shape educational policy and practice, and fosters educators’ anticolonial literacy so that teachers can counter colonialism and better support Indigenous students in public schools.
Keynote Session: Dr. Bettina Love
(see speaker information above)