(via Adrienne Warner, University of New Mexico)
We are thrilled to host Sofia Leung and Jorge López-McKnight as they present “Towards a Future of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies”. We hope you can join us!
The webinar will take place on Tuesday, March 22, starting at 11:00 AM CDT. Registration is required (see below for link). This talk will feature live closed-captioning and will not be recorded.
Overview
H. Samy Alim and Django Paris write, “CSP seeks to perpetuate and foster-to sustain-linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation” (1). In this talk, we will explore what it would mean to apply Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies (CSP) to our library instruction work and other ways we teach and learn in educational settings. As we map CSP’s intellectual and cultural lineage, we will discuss where it departs from other critical assets and strengths-based approaches and what it means to teach to the white gaze, as Paris and Alim have written, and what opens up for us when we reject that framing and commit to centering Indigenous, Black, Latinx/e/a/o, Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Through a CSP lens, we will interrogate how information literacy (IL) and library instruction practices become formalized and passed down to new librarians. How do we understand IL and its related practices? How can CSP help us evolve our understanding of IL and shift our teaching practices?
Reference
Paris, D., & Alim, H. S. (Eds.). (2017). Culturally sustaining pedagogies: Teaching and learning for justice in a changing world. Teachers College Press.
Speaker Bios.
Sofia Leung (she/her) is a librarian, facilitator, and educator living and working on unceded Mashpee Wampanoag land. You can find more about her on her website.
Jorge López-McKnight (he/him) is an educator, writer, and community college library worker in Austin, Texas.
For more information, and to register, please go here.