SGRN - Teaching Toward Social Justice Education

Come join us, in this two-day interactive institute where we will focus on bringing a social justice consciousness to the classroom. This will be a unique opportunity to understand injustice and inequity in the classroom through an exploration of radical theories of education and co-create practical strategies for implementation.  Each participant will leave with a deeper understanding of themselves and their commitment to social justice and some practical exercises and frameworks for incorporating this politic into their work as educators.  We will explore innovative techniques for reaching resistant learners and inspiring agency and empowerment to co-create a better world.

Topics that will be covered are as follows:

• Co-creating an Ideal Learning Community
• Social Identity & Intersectionality
• Relational Aggression & Bullying
• Microaggressions
• Understanding Oppression
• Allyship: a weapon or a tool?
• Interrupting Oppression as a form of Bystander   Education
• Strategies for Social Justice Pedagogy
• Liberatory Teaching Practice 

Facilitated by: 

Sally Eck

Sally Eck is a fixed-term instructor in the Women's Studies Department at Portland State University. Sally earned a B.S. in both Sociology and Women's Studies, with an MS in Education. Currently her courses have included Girl power Capstone, Local Justice Capstone, Social Justice Education, Women's Studies Inquiry, Gender and Education, and Spring Celebration. Sally has a personal commitment to issues surrounding Feminist Pedagogy, Oppression Theory, and feminist parenting.

Angie Mejia, MA, CA

Angie Mejia, MA, CAS is an adjunct instructor at Portland State University and a doctoral candidate in the department of Sociology at Syracuse University. She has published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the Action Research Journal, The American Journal of Public Health (APHA), and the Theory in Action Journal. Her scholarly interests focuses on mood (dis) orders as experienced by women of color. She is currently working on two manuscripts: One is a theoretical exercise that uses a Deleuzian lens to map out how various discourses about major depressive disorders (MDD) circulate between abstract knowledge produces and scientized consumers. The second one is a methodological critique of U.S. public health's biopolitical (mis)use of visual methodologies in minority health initiatives.