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Anti-Racist Pedagogy Across the Curriculum Workshop
Part 1:
- May 9-10, 2012 - 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- May 11, 2012 - 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Voyageur South, Atwood Memorial Center
Part 2:
- May 14-17, 2012 - 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Alumni Room, Atwood Memorial Center
What SCSU Faculty say about ARPAC:
"...I always thought I was functioning in a non-racist mode and that I did not need further training. However, this training opened my eyes and mind to the greater impact that I can have by learning how to be ANTI-racist. The training was and continues to have a positive impact on me, as well as my students, my research, and my personal life. The training was life changing."
Theresa Estrem
Communication Sciences and Disorders
"...As a past participant in the Anti-Racist Pedagogy Across the Curriculum Workshop, I have learned to recognize how racism and discrimination is institutionalized on many levels, both in the past and in the present."
Kathryn Gainey
Art
"...The ARPAC workshop was a real eye-opener for me and the experience was extremely valuable. I became aware of feelings and situations that were simply not previously in my world, and for that I am thankful. I met and interacted with faculty from across the campus, and I continue to build those friendships. I also have incorporated several assignments in my science teaching methods course that have been well received by my students. Overall, the workshop was beneficial on many levels."
Mark Minger
Biology
Have you thought about the impact of racism on your discipline? Are you challenged by how to deal with race issues in your classroom?
We invite you to be part of our movement to advance institutional change for racial equity. The Anti-Racist Pedagogy Across the Curriculum Workshop is an intensive workshop for faculty ready to update their courses and be introduced to some new teaching methodologies and pedagogy. The Anti-Racist Pedagogy Across the Curriculum workshop will provide intensive interactive training for faculty on how to incorporate anti-racist pedagogy into courses across disciplines, across the campus.
The Anti-Racist Pedagogy Across the Curriculum (ARPAC) Workshop teaches faculty how to teach students to think critically within an anti-racism framework. Anti-racist pedagogy is a shift from traditionally privileged Eurocentric knowledge that imposed certain ways of seeing the world through the lenses of traditional disciplines. It effectively broadens what is valued and puts in the foreground different ways of knowing, research methodology and voices that have previously been silenced.
The workshop will be led by nationally recognized scholars including Dr. Victor Rodriguez, California State University, Long Beach; Dr. Emily Drew, Willamette University; and James Addington and Carmen Valenzuela of the Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative.
Participants will develop curriculum modifications for existing or new courses with implementation in future semesters and will participate in ongoing follow-up meetings during the 2012-2013 academic year in person and/or by ITVS for non-SCSU participants.
The workshop is open to all teaching faculty including fixed term and adjunct. The workshop is also open to teaching graduate students.
Registration Deadline
The registration deadline is May 4, 2012.
Registration Fee
This is a one-time registration fee that covers the cost of materials and food. First-time participants are expected to fully participate in both parts. You must complete part one before you can participate in part two. (If you have taken the MCARI 2 1/2 workshop during the past 12 months it is not necessary to take it a second time.) If you are a returning participant from one of the previous years you may register and participate again in part one and/or two. The registration fee is the same for all participants regardless if you participate in one part or both. There are no refunds.
If you have questions please contact Kyoko Kishimoto at: kkishimoto@stcloudstate.edu
Early bird registration received by April 27, 2012
| SCSU Faculty | $65 |
| SCSU Graduate Students | $40 |
| Non-SCSU Faculty | $250 |
| Non-SCSU Graduate Students | $150 |
Received after April 27, 2012
| SCSU Faculty | $75 |
| SCSU Graduate Students | $50 |
| Non-SCSU Faculty | $275 |
| Non-SCSU Graduate Students | $175 |
For more information regarding ARPAC contact Kyoko Kishimoto at: kkishimoto@stcloudstate.edu or
call 320-308-6476
Schedule and Workshop Outline
The Anti-Racist Pedagogy across the Curriculum Workshop will begin promptly at 8:30 a.m. each day and will end promptly at 4:30 p.m. Participants are encouraged to gather from 8:00 a.m. for coffee. Lunch, snacks and beverages will be provided during the day. Participants are expected to arrange their week so they can fully participate in all the parts.
Part One
- May 9-10, 2012 , 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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May 11, 2012, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Voyageur South, Atwood Memorial Center
Topics will focus on the historical and contextual work on dismantling racism including:
- 500 years of Racism and Resistance
- Defining Racism (an exploration of the dynamics of race and systemic power)
- Exploring the three manifestations of racism (individual, cultural and institutional)
- Dismantling systemic racism with a focus on higher education
Part Two
- May 14-17, 2012 , 8:30 a.m.—4:30 p.m.
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Alumni Room, Atwood Memorial Center
Topics will focus particularly on shaping anti-racist pedagogy across the curriculum. These parts will include:
- “Understanding Systemic Racism”: Weaving Together the Analysis
- National Context of “Diversity” in Higher Education
- Introducing Antiracism and Critical Pedagogy
- Genealogy of Racialization in Higher Education
- Organizing for Transformation at SCSU
- Themes in Critical Pedagogy
- Culture, the racialization of culture, racial taxonomies and paradigms
- Power Shapes Perspective: World Views and White Supremacy
- Designing ARPAC Course I: Goals & Outcomes
- Racial/Ethnic Issues Within the Discipline
- The Classroom as a Site for Organizing: Transcending “Teaching” Antiracism
- Classroom Strategies
- Conflict in the Classroom
- Guest Panelists: Cohorts
- Racial Identity Caucusing
- Designing ARPAC Course II: Methods
- Intersectionality of Privilege and Oppression
- Assessing & Evaluating Antiracism Teaching
- Designing ARPAC Course III: Assessment
- Remaining Questions / Concerns for Journey Forward
Meet the Presenters
Dr. Emily Drew
Emily M. Drew is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at Willamette University, where she teaches courses about racism, race and ethnicity, urban sociology, mass media, and social change. Her primary areas of research involve understanding how race and racism operate inside of social institutions, particularly higher education, media and urban planning. She earned her doctorate, as well as Master’s degrees, from Loyola University Chicago, and has articles published in Critical Studies in Media Communication and Television & New Media. Drew’s work is driven by a long-term commitment to social justice struggles. She has been actively engaged in anti-racism organizing and activism for almost 20 years, and serves as a co-trainer of “Understanding Institutional Racism” workshops for Crossroads Anti Racism Organizing and Training. She gives presentations at universities and community-based organizations on the subjects of white privilege, gentrification, fair housing, reparations and affirmative action. In all of these capacities, she is an organizer and strategic planner, helping institutions develop and implement long term commitments to anti-racist, multicultural diversity.
Dr. Victor Rodriguez
Dr. Rodríguez is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He has previously taught courses in sociology, anthropology and Latino Politics, Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine, Concordia University, Irvine and at Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico.
He received a B.A. in History at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, and received a Master's degree and Ph.D. in Comparative Culture with an emphasis in Sociology at the University of California at Irvine. His area of expertise is the racialization of Latino identity and its impact on political behavior. At CSULB he teaches courses in social inequality: Wealth and Poverty in Latino Communities, Chicano/Latino Politics, and on Identity Assimilation in Chicano and Latino Life, The Ethnic Experience, and Latino Population in the United States. Dr. Rodriguez is a nationally known consultant diversity trainer. He writes and lectures about Latino and diversity issues, works with universities on infusing anti-racist multi-cultural objectives in the curriculum and on how to recruit, retain faculty of color. The second revised edition of his book Latino Politics: Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender will be published in June 1012.
Carmen L. Valenzuela
Carmen is a coordinator of the Minnesota Collaborative AntiRacism Initiative (MCARI), a long-time regional partner with Crossroads. Born and raised in Arizona, she lived in Minneapolis for over 25 years and recently returned home. Carmen has a variety of Management and training experience in both corporate and nonprofit sectors. Active in MCARI since its inception in 1993, she has a long history of activism in ecumenical church and community organizations that have worked to cross the boundaries of gender, class and race. She is a 1995 graduate of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in New Brighton MN.
R. James Addington
For more than 40 years, R. James Addington has been involved in the struggle for racial justice—throughout Minnesota, other parts of the United States and several other nations. "As a young man I was in high school and college during the civil rights movement," he says, "and was deeply impacted."After spending several years working for racial justice in the southwest United States, on Chicago’s West Side, and in countries around the world, Addington brought his organizing and leadership development efforts north to the Twin Cities in 1985. He and his late wife Imani-Nadine were the founding co-directors of the Minnesota Collaborative anti-Racism Initiative (MCARI). He served as co-director of MCARI until 2007. As co-director, he took the lead in shaping the training and institutional transformation models MCARI uses to day—many of which are useful to other organizations doing similar work. He continues his work with MCARI as a training and organizational development consultant. MCARI helps people understand the difference between individual prejudice and racism. MCARI trains teams within organizations to analyze the impact of racism and to develop a plan to move beyond those negative impacts. During Addington's time with MCARI, some 20,000 people were involved in its programming. He has worked with more than 100 institutions to break down the structures of racism that hurt the productivity of organizations and the individuals within them.
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