Mai Vision
Envisioning Racially Just Learning Spaces
Our vision is to empower educators, teacher educators, youth advocates, and organizers. We seek to uncover the historicized, social, cultural, political, spiritual, and embodied facets of pedagogical practices for liberatory education. Developed by Josephine H. Pham in partnership with collaborating creators, Mai Pedagogy Project aims to inspire new musings, theorizations, and implementations of racially just teaching and learning.
Mai Why
Why Mai Pedagogy Matters
Our goal is to democratize research, amplify unheard voices, and provide pedagogical tools for co-creating racially just learning spaces. The project serves as a beacon for educators, scholars, and artivists who champion racial justice in education, uniting diverse voices and communities to reimagine possibilities within and beyond educational institutions.
Mai Pedagogy Project
The term “artivism” is derived in part from the rich legacies of Chicanx artists from East Los Angeles and Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico who combined art and activism to educate and organize for social transformation; and other BIPOC creators whose forms of knowledge more fully capture the multiplicity of the language, literacy, and cultural practices of their selves, communities, and marginalized groups. For this project, “research artivism” is a dynamic concept that refers to a mode of scholarly engagement and activism that combines research with creative expression. This approach seeks to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and wider public engagement by using multimodal modes of communication (e.g. images, gestures, music, movement, language) and other artistic mediums to convey complex research findings and critical perspectives.
Mai Vision
Envisioning Racially Just Learning Spaces
Our vision is to empower educators, youth advocates, and organizers. We seek to uncover the historicized, social, cultural, political, spiritual, and embodied facets of pedagogical practices for liberatory education. Developed by Josephine H. Pham and collaborating creators, with features by guest research artivists, Mai Pedagogy Project aims to inspire new musings, theorizations, and implementations of racially just teaching and learning.
Mai Why
Why Mai Pedagogy Matters
Our goal is to democratize research, amplify unheard voices, and provide pedagogical tools for co-creating racially just learning spaces. The project serves as a beacon for educators, scholars, and artivists who champion racial justice in education, uniting diverse voices and communities to reimagine possibilities within and beyond educational institutions.
Mai Pedagogy Project
The term “artivism” is derived in part from the rich legacies of Chicanx artists from East Los Angeles and Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico who combined art and activism to educate and organize for social transformation; and other BIPOC creators whose forms of knowledge more fully capture the multiplicity of the language, literacy, and cultural practices of their selves, communities, and marginalized groups. For this project, “research artivism” is a dynamic concept that refers to a mode of scholarly engagement and activism that combines research with creative expression. This approach seeks to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and wider public engagement by using multimodal modes of communication (e.g. images, gestures, music, movement, language) and other artistic mediums to convey complex research findings and critical perspectives.
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“And this [pedagogical resource] offers something in between, it is a telling of a story based on curated choices using [data, theories, and lived experiences]… and it can be a tool where I can show it to people who are able to speak on lived experiences without requiring them to share their own trauma. It facilitated bringing up stuff without it having to be excavated and extractive in the dialogue”
“If someone’s like, you need to make your class more rigorous, I don’t know what else could be more rigorous than using more resources that’s based on a scholarly journal, a theoretical framework, and to create something from it that’s accessible and meaningful to students”
“I think there is something powerful about the visual component of [research artivism] that seems less intimidating. We associate comics and cartoons with something lighter and you can dive into more difficult topics that can serve to ignite conversations with people.”
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