Workshops
Collaborative Pedagogy for Liberation and Transformation: Addressing Diversity in the Classroom through Ensemble Teaching and Learning
Workshop Presentation Shoshana Simons, Danielle Drake
Since its inception, the university system has been dominated by the Ivory Tower model as the prevailing source of Western pedagogical practice. Institutionalized systems of discipline and reward, even within progressive educational contexts, are deeply informed by this model. This workshop will draw from liberatory educational theory and arts-based practices developed by the presenters who use them as tools for building a compassionate learning community across cultures and backgrounds in a very diverse university setting. These creative and invitational practices use simple visual, rhythmic, and embodied arts processes. As illustration, participants will be invited to engage in an adaptation of a collective arts-based practice called “Tree of Life” which all incoming Expressive Arts students participate in when they first enter the program. Together, we will use art materials to collaboratively construct our “Tree of Multicultural Educational Practice” promoting “ensemble learning & teaching” through the process. The tree consists of the following elements: roots: who are the educational practitioners and theorists who have inspired us as multicultural educators? Ground: what are the contexts in which we work? Bark: drawing from our roots, what qualities and skills do we bring to our practice as inclusive, multicultural educators? Branches: what are our hopes and dreams for the future of our field? Fruits: What are the gifts we would like to pass on to our students? Compost: what aspects of our field need to be discarded and composted? Storms: What environmental factors threaten our Tree? Participants will come away with a greater understanding of inclusive frameworks that support diverse pedagogy in the university classroom; ways in which to think collaboratively across faculty, programs, and departments; and arts based tools to invite creativity and diversity into the classroom from both faculty and students.
Why Utilizing Values Actities in All Classrooms Enhance Opportunities for Creating an Inclusive Learning Culture for All
Workshop Presentation Marsha Glines, Priscilla Ann Wallace-Boerger
This experiential workshop will offer a hands on experience for participants to explore values clarification activities to be utilized in classrooms from kindergarten through graduate school or for future use as professional development training. The purpose of this workshop is to offer participants the opportunity to experience values activities, discuss how to modify them based on age/student level and to stimulate discussion and other activities to promote understanding and acceptance of diverse learners and multicultural differences in our classrooms for 2018 and beyond.
