TeachingI have spent nearly all of my adult life teaching. I have facilitated learning in a variety of settings, including traditional university classrooms, online courses, public middle and high schools, social service agencies catering to homeless youth, outdoor education programs, and community-based settings that bring people with a wide variety of educational backgrounds together.
In all of these venues, I draw on Paolo Freire’s popular education learning model to cultivate a student-centered, experiential learning environment. In Freire’s framework, learners first reflect on and activate the knowledge they already possess, which has been acquired through a lifetime of formal and informal experiences. They build on this prior knowledge to ask questions about a given topic, pursuing additional learning in real-world context to deepen understanding. This refined understanding, in turn, contributes to a course of action, and to new cycles of learning. UNIVERSITY-LEVEL TEACHING
COMMUNITY-BASED POPULAR EDUCATION FACILITATION (selected - past and present) Anti-Displacement Pdx Coalition Community Alliance of Tenants East European Coalition Gitga'at Nation - Groundwork Portland Annual Youth Exchange Groundwork Portland Larkin Street Youth Services Líderes Verdes Living Cully Coalition Multnomah Youth Commission Outside In Parkrose Community United Church of Christ PLACE Portland Harbor Community Coalition Right 2 Survive / Right 2 Dream Too World Savvy |
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