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, a research-based virtual homespace for and by educators, youth advocates, and organizers committed to liberatory education:
“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:
Through the power of research artivism—drawing upon multimodal arts as a form of scholarly research and activism—Mai Pedagogy Project aims to illuminate the historicized, social, cultural, political, relational, spiritual, and embodied nature of pedagogical practices for liberatory education. Developed by Josephine H. Pham and collaborating creators, with features by guest research artivists, the project serves as a tinkering space for intellectualizing and realizing multidimensional rigors of practices for social transformation that are already inherent and enacted by youth, educators, and communities of Color, while imagining and enacting (an)other world of possibilities for educational justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds within and beyond schooling institutions. Mai Pedagogy Project aspires to spark (k)new musings, theorizations, and implementation of racially just 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!
