Shifting education reform towards people centered social movements
Pedagogies of organizing illuminates how teacher activists work across multiple social contexts, sometimes at tension with one another, to sustain large scale action. These include methods and practices that seed and nurture diverse groups’ learning about social issues impacting their communities and themselves, and to emerge as local social movement actors with common causes and identities who build the resources and power needed to make the change they want
Citation
Pham, J.H., Philip, T.M., & Kohan, A. (2021). Pedagogies of Organizing. Sequentials, 2(1), 2021. https://www.sequentialsjournal.net/issues/issue2.1/phamphilip.html
Andrew Kohan
Andrew Kohan
Andrew Kohan can’t decide what he wants to be when he grows up, but for now he’s a working comics artist and illustrator regularly making trouble at Winnipeg City Hall. A trained community organizer with roots in the HIV/AIDS movement, he’s made art and noise with grassroots activists in DC, Chicago, Cleveland, and Toronto.
“On a political level, decentering traditional forms of knowledge presentations is an important move for teachers. Providing multiple ways for K-12 students to represent their learning and understandings are important; [teachers] can’t just talk about providing multiple types of assessments, entry points and representations one’s learning without implementing it themselves…My [teacher candidates] are already used to having different options for engaging with and responding to a variety of sources for learning in my courses, and not just academic peer-reviewed journal articles… In the first iterations of my courses, I got mostly written responses. As I include more different types of sources over time, the type of responses I got are also different. I’ve gotten more visual responses, a lot more recordings doing their own podcast response to readings. When reading the Pedagogies of Organizing comic, a teacher composed a song that represents [their understanding of the tensions of organizing and social movements]”
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