#CAL11 & #11rsj
There is a debate going on in the conference on what CAL Researchers can do to enable social justice. Here are 11 ideas for a start, there are many more;
1. Set up a Public Interest Research Group and undertake research that benefits your community eg CoPIRG; Train your researchers to be socially responsible
2. Volunteer. Work in a community centre and enable socially inclusive learning to happen; learn from the socially excluded
3. Set up a local Goose Club, bring together people from different sectors, education, culture, business, community. Think up transformative projects; do the research
4. Trust your students. Everyone wants to learn, but perhaps not in the way you want them to; enable their epistemic cognition.
5. Make your work participative; Use the PAH Continuum in your teaching and enable collaborative and creative work (& recognise it)
6. Tell your local council you want to set up a pop-up learning centre & train people for a day, or a pop-up research centre & hold a ResearchMeet
7. Get your University to follow the guidance on Public Engagement; get social justice in their mission statement; Volunteer to be your VC’s Technology Steward
8 Develop a Policy Forest for your area and identify the policy consequences of your work; tell the govt about it.
9 Create and set up a peer-to-peer EMA account and subsidise an entitled student to go to college (£30 a week) and sponsor them to go to your Uni
10. Create a hashtag for twitter and have a weekly discussion on how these projects are going #11rsj (research for social justice)
11 Trust and develop your professionalism; set up P2P CPD networks, and most of all believe in yourself; you can make a difference
Love it.
[...] for social change to get beyond destructive hatreds. * Fred Garnett: brokering learning and social justice suggestions, both linked to taking learner’s interests and mapping them to formal learning [...]
[...] Garnett: brokering learning and social justice suggestions, both linked to taking learner’s interests and mapping them to formal learning [...]
[...] Thriving in a colder and more challenging climate; As the title suggests ALT-C, Learning Technologists all, will be holding their annual conference 2011 this week and addressing the larger socio-economic context in which learning takes place. People like Gilly Salmon, with her 5-stage e-moderating model have developed responses to how CMC has changed learning, Sugata Mitra has developed the SOLE model, very much a post-web approach to learning, and @JosieFraser is working on city-wide approaches to learning. I think much will be discussed about the social consequences of the post-web changes in learning, although I dont hold out much hope for academics addressing social justice. [...]
and i’m going to cheekily suggest a 12th: write out how you answer some version of these questions (both asked of me by first year students): What is multicultural learning? How is this sort of teaching different from ‘good teaching’?
What is social justice teaching – what does it sound, look, feel like? what does it do, inspire, require, make possible? How do we know that what we describe is good teaching – who do we ask? what do we observe? how do we gather data, or do we ask our students to gather the data?
Because of that “What is multicultural learning?” question from students, I co-created this public piece with a law colleague after we’d worked with 35 other faculty across five years: http://z.umn.edu/milt.
Because of that “How is this [social justice, participatory, co-created, multicultural or inclusive teaching] different from good teaching” question from students and peers, my center colleagues and I created (and need to update) this resource page: http://z.umn.edu/multicultural.