Speaking Truth in Community The Role of Networks in Critical Pedagogy Theory and Practice

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Jeremy McGinniss, Summit University of Pennsylvania, @jmymcginnissDonna Witek, The University of Scranton, @donnarosemary

PaLA 2016 CRD Spring WorkshopMarywood University, Scranton, PA May 20, 2016 CC BY-NC

Experience

Action

Reflection

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From Ignatian Pedagogy: An Abridged Version, 2014.

TODAY’S ACTION

What are your expectations

and goals for today?

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TODAY’S ACTION

3 questions

WHAT IS TRUTH?

WHAT IS CRITICAL PEDAGOGY?

WHAT IS A NETWORK?

Experience-Reflection-Action cycle through each question

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WHAT IS TRUTH?

“Truth is the engine that drives inquiry. The pursuit of the truth involves a desire to understand what is real and avoid what is false.” (Spears and Loomis, 2009)

FRAME

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• Social justice in the context of library work

• Human flourishing

• Introduce small tensions in pursuit of truth

EXPERIENCE

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• Truth’s relationship to power

• Information access and interaction: physical, technological, cognitive, and social (Budd, 2012; Saunders, 2016)

What is at stake is our humanity.

REFLECTION

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External• Engagement in dialogue

Internal• Personal responsibility for own learning

Both require a commitment to this work, even as we know we will mess it up and get it wrong along the way. (Hathcock, 2016, April 13)

ACTION

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WHAT IS CRITICAL PEDAGOGY?

“Transformation is key for critical pedagogy, which challenges foundational and universal truths that construe knowledge and reality as static entities transferable from those who understand it to those who do not. . . . critical pedagogy instead positions students and teachers as co-inquisitors in the practice of enacting truth, not finding it.” (Grettano, 2006)

FRAME

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• Theory and practice → reflection and action

• An ethic of justice is an ethic of care (Accardi, 2015, 2016; Hathcock, 2016, March 26)

• Listening as an act of justice

• Relationships as texts

EXPERIENCE

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Language as an “act with consequences”:

“Be it grand or slender, burrowing, blasting, or refusing to sanctify; whether it laughs out loud or is a cry without an alphabet, the choice word, the chosen silence, unmolested language surges toward knowledge, not its destruction.” (Morrison, 1993)

REFLECTION

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“An individual’s use of an object, experience, person or event is what turns it into a transitional object. Transitional objects become transitional for us when we use them to creatively put ourselves in relation.” (Ellsworth, 2005)

ACTION

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WHAT IS A NETWORK?

“Together [digital writing and information literacy] present powerful ways to situate research, knowledge production, and information sharing as ways to engage not simply with isolated bits of information or abstracted ideas, but also with relationships between sources, ideas, and the individuals who create, exchange, and interact with those ideas.” (Baer, 2014)

FRAME

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• #critlib (Twitter)• #acrlilrevisions #critlib chat (July 2014)• meeting via #critlib chat → NEPaLA 2015

• Hybrid Pedagogy• #digped

• In the Library with the Lead Pipe• Library Juice Press / Library Juice Academy

EXPERIENCE

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• What is the role of networks in human flourishing?

• Is a network the same as a community?

• How do networks provide a sense of proximity that bridges time and space?

REFLECTION

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Think-Pair-Share:What are your hopes for critical pedagogy’s role in your instructional practice?

What are your fears about critical pedagogy?

What are your frustrations with trying and using critical pedagogy in your instruction (or elsewhere)?

What connections do you see between critical pedagogy’s goals and information literacy’s goals for our students? How have you pursued them?

How does your positioning within your institutional community affect your opportunities for practicing critical pedagogy?

ACTION

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QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

What questions do you have?

What ideas are you forming?

What fears or struggles have you faced/are you facing?

Thank you for your attention. “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” --Simone Weil (First and Last Notebooks, 1970)

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REFERENCES

Accardi, Maria T. “Coming out of the spiritual closet.” Librarian Burnout, November 30, 2015.

Accardi, Maria T. “Reflections on Minnesota Library Association ARLD Day.” Maria T. Accardi, May 12, 2016.

Baer, Andrea. “Keeping Up With... Digital Writing in the College Classroom.” Keeping Up With… Association of College & Research

Libraries, April 2014.

Baudrillard, Jean. The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena. London: Verso, 1993. [WorldCat]

Budd, John. “Informational Education: Creating an Understanding of Justice” [paywall]. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice

(2012): 1-12.

critlib - critlib.org.

Drabinski, Emily. “Toward a Kairos of Library Instruction” [paywall]. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 40.5 (2014): 480-485.

Ellsworth, Elizabeth Ann. Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2005. [WorldCat]

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REFERENCES

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Continuum, [1970] 2000. [WorldCat]

Freire, Paulo, and Ana Maria Araujo Freire. Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Trans. Robert R. Barr. New York:

Continuum, 1994. [WorldCat]

Giroux, Henry A. Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition. South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1983.

[WorldCat]

Giroux, Henry A. Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education. New York: Routledge, 1992. [WorldCat]

Giroux, Henry A. On Critical Pedagogy. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011. [WorldCat]

Grettano, Teresa. “Pedagogy Synthesis.” Submitted in partial fulfillment of qualifying exam for PhD program in English Studies, Illinois

State University, December 20, 2006.

Hathcock, April. “My Radicalism, My Faith.” At The Intersection, March 26, 2016.

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REFERENCES

Hathcock, April. “You’re Gonna Screw Up.” At The Intersection, April 13, 2016.

hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994. [WorldCat]

Ignatian Pedagogy: An Abridged Version [PDF]. Jesuit Institute, 2014.

“Jesuit Tradition.” The University of Scranton [Vision and Mission].

Kumbier, Alana. Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2014. [WorldCat]

Liston, Daniel Patrick, and James W. Garrison. Teaching, Learning, and Loving: Reclaiming Passion in Educational Practice. New York:

RoutledgeFalmer, 2004. [WorldCat]

McLaren, Peter. Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education. New York: Longman, 1989.

[WorldCat]

Morrison, Toni. “Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture.” Nobelprize.org, December 7, 1993.

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REFERENCES

Saunders, Laura. “Re: [acrlframe] “Information has Value” Frame: A “Think About” for the Group.” Post on the acrlframe email listserv

via American Library Association, April 24, 2016.

Schroeder, Robert. Critical Journeys: How 14 Librarians Came to Embrace Critical Practice. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2014.

[WorldCat]

Shor, Ira. Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. [WorldCat]

Spears, Paul D., and Steven R. Loomis. Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic,

2009. [WorldCat]

Weil, Simone. First and Last Notebooks. London: Oxford University Press, 1970. [WorldCat]

Witek, Donna. “Making the Information Literacy ‘One-Shot’ Ignatian.” Information Constellation, August 18, 2015.

Witek, Donna. “Becoming #critlib.” Information Constellation, December 15, 2015.

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REFERENCES

Witek, Donna, and Teresa Grettano. “Revising for Metaliteracy: Flexible Course Design to Support Social Media Pedagogy.” In

Metaliteracy in Practice, eds. Trudi E. Jacobson and Thomas P. Mackey. Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2016. 1-22. [WorldCat]

Journals:

Hybrid Pedagogy

In the Library with the Lead Pipe

Publishers:

Library Juice Press

Hashtags via Twitter:

#critlib / #digped / #libleadgender / #radlibchat

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