Monday, November 13, 2023 12pm to 4pm
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1 Park Place, Athens, Ohio 45701
A Center for International Studies Social Justice Pedagogy Workshop: World Languages Instruction
Dr. Peter Ojiambo, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas
This workshop aims to help language instructors/educators to understand how critical learning and social engagement in language instruction are essential to our democracy and justice nationally and globally. Inspired by bell hooks’, “Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom” and “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”; Freire’s, “Pedagogy of Hope” and; Parker Palmer’s, “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life” ideas of the vitality of building a community of love, connections, relationships in the academy and how to create, nurture and enhance praxis pedagogy of social justice, equity and equality at all levels, the significance of decolonizing the curriculum and other strong foundational educational tenets, the speaker will share his insights, successes and challenges of his foreign language teaching journey as an African Languages educator (especially Swahili) on how to build: a rich language program; a robust language instruction; diverse and innovative curriculum; high quality teaching materials; imbedded Oral Proficiency/ACTFL guidelines in classroom instruction; linkage to study abroad and; K-16 language outreach for students and educators.
Boxed lunch will be provided.
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