PEDAGOGY BOOK CLUB
Reading for liberatory education. Join us!
Session 1: Healing-Centered Engagement
The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement by Shawn Ginwright
We work a lot with Shawn Ginwright’s concept of healing-centered engagement. Ginwright has written books about it — but in this article he describes why healing-centered engagement is: explicitly political and rooted in action; grounded in culture and the restoration of identity; and focused on the strengths and wellbeing of youth. The text is foundational to our work at Kite’s Nest!
Session 2: Pedagogies of Love & Liberation
Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed with Hilda Franco (Episode 34 of The Lit Review Podcast)
Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
On our reading list:
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (Beacon Press, 2019)
Liberation Literacies (TED talk)
bell hooks: Teaching Community - “Democratic Education” and “Heart to Heart”
bell hooks: “Teaching to Transgress”
What we’re looking for:
Great sources about Youth Participatory Action Research [YPAR]
Great sources about Youth Employment, including questions around how we create cultures of accountability; supporting professionalism without assimilation; and creating healing-centered work environments.
Great sources about teaching to support adolescent identity development
Have a recommendation? Email sara@kitesnest.org