Emily Drabinski, Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz (NYU), and Elvis Bakaitis (Graduate Center) will bring workshop participants into active conversation about a critically engaged, student-centered pedagogy. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on specific examples of transformative learning praxis – moments when they sensed a shift in students’ understanding, and the associated context or framework that lead to that moment. We seek to engage with educators (in breakout rooms & collaborative brainstorming) doing critically engaged work in their classrooms, and record the practices that get us closest to transformative moment(s) with students. Through this shared process, we will bring the often theoretical concepts of critical, decolonial pedagogy into concrete focus, clarifying our own expectations and teaching practices.
