Lehman WAC is committed to improving and supporting student writing in courses across the campus. For the 2022-23 year-long seminar, participants will learn about
established and emerging anti-racist and decolonial theory related to pedagogy and higher education.Participants will collaborate with one another to put theory into practice by designing and revising syllabi, assignments, rubrics, etc. We will offer support with writing-to-learn strategies to use in current classrooms. The goal is to vivify and ground theory in real-life spaces, practices, and routines.
Calendar
| Date | Texts |
|---|---|
| Sep 23 | bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress Intro & Ch 1 |
| Oct 21 | Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed Ch 2 Bettina Love We want to do more than survive The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study |
| Dec 2 | bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress Ch 5 “Theory as Liberatory Practice” Leigh Patel’s No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education Williams et al Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions |
| Feb 24 | bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress Ch 13 “Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedagogical Process” & Ch 14 “Ecstasy” Adrienne Maree Brown’s Pleasure Activism Rosa Rivera McCutcheon Radical Care: Leading with Justice in Urban Schools Rooted in Strength: Using Translanguaging to Grow Multilingual Readers |
| Mar 31 | bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress ch. 11 “Language” Inoue’s Above the Well Condon & Young’s Performing Anti-Racist Pedagogy Nzinga’s How Higher Education Reproduces Inequality |
| Apr 21 | Share out and reflections |
Readings
- hooks. (1994). Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom. Routledge. Library link
- Freire. (1993). Pedagogy of the oppressed (Ramos, Trans.; New rev. 20th-Anniversary ed.). Continuum. Library link
- Love. (2019). We want to do more than survive : abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press. Library link
- Harney, & Moten, F. (2013). The undercommons : fugitive planning & black study. Minor Compositions. Library link
- Patel. (2021). No study without struggle : confronting settler colonialism in higher education. Beacon Press. Library link
- Williams, Squire, D. D., & Tuitt, F. A. (2021). Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions: Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education (1st ed.). State University of New York Press. Library link
- Brown. (2019). Pleasure activism : the politics of feeling good. AK Press. Library link
- Rivera-McCutchen. (2021). Radical Care: Leading for Justice in Urban Schools (1st ed.). Teachers College Press. Library link
- Espinosa, & Ascenzi-Moreno, L. (2021). Rooted in strength : using translanguaging to grow multilingual readers and writers. Scholastic. Library link
- Inoue, Asao B. (2021). Above The Well: An Antiracist Argument From a Boy of Color. The WAC Clearinghouse; Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2021.1244 Link
- Condon, F., & V. A. Young (Eds.). (2016). Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-B.2016.0933 Link
- Nzinga-Johnson. (2020). Lean semesters : how higher education reproduces inequity. Johns Hopkins University Press. Library link
