What Is Mai Pedagogy Project?

“Mai” has multiple meanings in the Vietnamese language:

1. Hoa Mai

It means yellow apricot blossoms (hoa mai), a delicate and ancient symbol of renewal/life/good fortune that is also believed to vanquish evil.

2. Ngày Mai

It means tomorrow (ngày mai), an ideation of possible futures.

“Mai” is also a play on the English word “my”, an intentional shift from “I”/individual voice to an all-encompassing entity that no single body can possess. These dual meanings represent the overarching inquiries for Mai Pedagogy Project:

  • What do justice-centered pedagogies look, sound, and feel like in (in)formal learning contexts?

  • How can research artivism expand new possibilities for how knowledge is collectively created, represented, and experienced?

“Mai” has multiple meanings in the Vietnamese language:

1. Hoa Mai

It means yellow apricot blossoms (hoa mai), a delicate and ancient symbol of renewal/life/good fortune that is also believed to vanquish evil.

2. Ngày Mai

It means tomorrow (ngày mai), an ideation of possible futures.

 “Mai” is also a play on the English word my, an intentional shift from “I”/individual voice to an all-encompassing entity that no single body can possess. These dual meanings represent the overarching inquiries for Mai Pedagogy Project, a research-based virtual homespace for and by educators, youth advocates, and organizers committed to liberatory education:

  • What does pedagogical decision-making for liberatory education look, sound, and feel like in (in)formal learning contexts? 

  • How can research artivism democratize how scholarly knowledge is created, produced, represented, and disseminated?

A collaboration among scholars, educators, artists, and other community members, the project serves as an experiential learning space of knowledge and practices for liberatory education. Through multimodality and the arts, Mai Pedagogy Project aspires to spark (k)new musings, theorizations, and implementation of justice-centered pedagogies for the purposes of:

Capturing more imaginative, unconventional, dynamic forms of knowledge within and beyond “traditional academic texts”

Capturing more imaginative, unconventional, dynamic forms of knowledge within and beyond “traditional academic texts”

Making scholarly research more widely available and accessible to broader audiences and learners

Making scholarly research more widely available and accessible to broader audiences and learners

Offering a pedagogical tool for educators interested in racially just practices in formal and informal educational spaces

Offering a pedagogical tool for educators interested in racially just practices in formal and informal educational spaces

Expanding representations of research-based findings and counterstories (un)told

Expanding representations of research-based findings and counterstories (un)told

Featuring and amplifying scholar-educator-artivists of Color as public intellectuals

Featuring and amplifying scholar-educator-artivists of Color as public intellectuals

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We are committed to offering our resources to educators, youth advocates, organizers, and community members at no cost. If you have used materials from Mai Pedagogy Project in any way, we would love to learn from you and your experiences to sustain our project and support our future work!

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