Inspiring Justice-Driven Educational Research through Critical History and Storytelling
Zoom
The CREATE Center is excited to announce our Mondays in May events! This May, mark your calendars for a CREATE Conversation on Monday, May 2, 2022 from 5-6:30 pm and for the CREATE Community Engaged Speaker Series on Monday, May 16, from 12-1:30 pm. With topics such as conducting critical qualitative research online and how critical history and storytelling can inspire justice-driven educational research, these virtual events are sure to spark your creative and intellectual curiosity!
Save the Date: Monday, May 16 from 12–1:30 p.m. (Virtual)
CREATE Community Engaged Conversation Series
Inspiring Justice-Driven Educational Research through Critical History and Storytelling
Featuring
- Elizabeth James, Moderator
Program Associate for the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan & Third-Generation Storyteller - Sirrita Darby, Panelist
Co-Founder and Executive Director of Detroit Heals Detroit - Jamon Jordan, Panelist
Detroit City Historian & Founder of the Black Scroll Network - Tonya Kneff-Chang, Panelist
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Community-based Research on Equity, Activism, & Transformational Education
The histories we learn and the stories we tell – of our country, of our community, of ourselves – are situated within the struggles for social justice, civil rights, and human dignity. Though stories have been used to disparage and perpetuate harm, stories can also be used to humanize, theorize, and resist. When we critically engage with history and center the stories of peoples and groups on the margins, we not only counter erasure, but also pave paths toward justice. As such, stories are a source of power.
Moderated by a third-generation storyteller, education scholars will come together to discuss how they have integrated critical history and storytelling into their scholarship, teaching, and community engagement. We look forward to gathering for an enriching event that we hope will inspire and inform others’ efforts to learn from and with communities to advance justice-driven educational research.
This event is part of the CREATE (Community-based Research on Equity, Activism, & Transformative Education) Center’s Community Engaged Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the National Center for Institutional Diversity and the Edward Ginsberg Center at the University of Michigan.