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Shifting education reform towards people centered social movements

Pedagogies of organizing illuminates how changemakers work across multiple social contexts, sometimes at tension with one another, to sustain social transformation via large scale action.

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

This comic is part of special themed issue Learning to Engage, edited by Joe Curnow and Tanner Vea and illustrated by Andrew Kohan.

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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.

This comic is part of a special issue published in Sequentials Journal, co-edited by Drs. Joe Curnow and Tanner Vea and illustrated by Andrew Kohan. For open access to other comics that explore concepts of social change in learning sciences research, including accessible text for assistive technology, visit www.sequentialsjournal.net

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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