SJE Voices

“Critical” With/For Whom?: Doing Research on Tricky Ground

Wednesday, April 19th, 10:30am-3:30pm, Furcolo Hall 101

Special guest Dr. Sonia Nieto

Featured speaker Dr. Timothy San Pedro

Session 1: Higher Education, Disability and Community Resources

Session 2: Youth Cultures, Languages and Literacies

Multimedia Gallery: Digital Stories and Podcast

Please join us!

Critical Listening and Storying: Sustaining Relationships Within and Beyond Research

Relying on intersections of Humanizing Research and Indigenous Research Methodologies, San Pedro discusses the importance of centering relationships through critical listening and storying. Doing so provides greater opportunities to co-construct shared truths and realities in our pluralistic society. This work is framed as Projects in Humanization, which attempts to remove the often times dehumanizing “slash” between researcher/participant and into more productive spaces where collective desires for educational, political, and social change may be forged because they come from places of mutual respect, reciprocity, and answerability.

Timothy San Pedro, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Multicultural and Equity Studies at The Ohio State University.

Wednesday, April 19 @ 12:00-1:15pm | UMass Amherst Furcolo 101

Video of the San Pedro Lecture will be available soon. 

Critical Methodologies Seminar Series: Race & Freedom Forum

This forum seeks to engage overlapping conversations about the illusion of freedom, language of difference, and centrality of race in education as part of ongoing national public discourse. Drs. Lyiscott and Matias will offer perspectives based on their research and practice in K-16 settings. Dr. Tinson will cohere ideas with his research and historical analysis of social movements.

Jamila Lyiscott, Ph.D., is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Urban Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Cheryl Matias, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Chris Tinson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the School of Critical Social Inquiry at Hampshire College.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 @ 12:00-2:00pm | UMass Amherst Furcolo 101 

Video of the Forum will be made available soon.

Graduate students in “Pedagogical Foundations of Social Justice Education” produced podcasts to help (re)frame and expand historical and contemporary understandings of critical pedagogy as it manifests in various social contexts.

Check out “SJE Voices Podcast” (fall 2016)!

Educative Violence: Social Movements, Fanon, and the Racial State

This presentation revisits Fanon’s theory of violence, violence’s multiple levels of expression in social life, and the intellectual’s relationship with violence as both an educational and ethical problem. That is, how is education a form of violence and how does violence contain an educative moment? Over 50 years after its publication, Wretched’s original and generative theory of violence remains relevant as both an explanatory framework for race/colonial relations and violence’s conditions of possibility.

Dr. Zeus Leonardo is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 @ 12:00-1:15pm | UMass Integrative Learning Center N211 

Video of the Leonardo lecture available.

When My Reflection Looks Back at Me: Race, Gender, and Literacy in Community-Engaged Scholarship

In this talk, Dr. Haddix will share her journey as a community engaged scholar whose work is deeply informed by her intersecting identities of being a Black woman, mother, daughter, sister, teacher, and researcher. She will describe theoretical and methodological moves from the beginning and throughout her research inquiries, highlighting examples from her work with urban youth in the Writing Our Lives project, with Black adolescent girls in the Dark Girls Celebration of Black Girlhood project, and with students of color in teacher preparation programs.

Dr. Marcelle Haddix is Dean’s Associate Professor and chair of the Reading and Language Arts department in the Syracuse University School of Education.

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 @ 12:30-1:30pm | UMass Amherst Furcolo Hall 101

*Book signing at 11:30am, Furcolo Hub

Video of the Haddix lecture available.

The Significance of K’é (Relationships) in Research with Indigenous Youth

Relationships are the cornerstone of Indigenous community life.  They are how Indigenous people come to understand the nature of their community, their identity, and their role for contributing to their community.  In Diné terms, this is known as the practice of k’é. Research with Indigenous peoples that embodies the practice of k’é provides for culturally relevant, sensitive, and appropriate methodologies, and research practices that are in line with Indigenous epistemologies and axiologies.  Dr. Lee will share how k’é has been present in her research with Indigenous youth and teachers, and how k’é fosters other tenets of Indigenous research practices – respect, responsibility and reciprocity.

Dr. Tiffany S. Lee, Diné (Navajo) from Crystal, NM and Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge, SD, is an Associate Professor in Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico.

Wednesday, March 9 @ 6:00-7:00pm | UMass Amherst Campus Center 168C

Video of the Lee lecture available.

“Adelante: Supporting and Retaining Latina Adult College Students through a Social Justice Perspective”

Dr. Pérez will share research on a student mutual aid group that seeks to support and retain Latina non-traditional college students with degree completion along the educational pipeline. The model of Adelante Circle of Support will be described. This work draws on a social justice orientated approach in education to actively address the dynamics of oppression, privilege, and isms, recognizing that society is the product of historically rooted, institutionally sanctioned stratification based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability.

Dr. Madeline Pérez is Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of Institute for Latino Community Practice at the University of St. Joseph.

Dr. Anthony de Jesús is Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of MSW Field Education at the University of St. Joseph.

Wednesday, October 28, 4-6pm | UMass Amherst Du Bois Library 2601

Love as Action: Pushing Boundaries in Community-Based Research and Practice

Wednesday, April 29, 12-6pm, UMass Campus Center 162

Featuring

“Love as Action and Social Justice in Austere Times”

“Autoethnopoems and Digital Stories in Emerging Research”

“Making Our Work Count Locally and Globally”

“Youth Participatory Action Research and Multimedia Production”