Your Site - Increase Student Engagement through Absent Narratives
WORKSHOP DETAILS
YOUR School, YOUR Schedule.
Clock Hours: Full Day = 8 clock hours, Half Day = 4 clock hours
Intended Audience: K-12 Educators and Support Staff
Facilitators: Julianne Schwietz or Kristen Hecker
Fee: For workshops held within the Twin Cities Metro area; Full day cost = $2,500. Half day cost = $1,700. Workshops held outside the Metro area will include travel costs. (Please call for in person pricing of trainings held at the Minnesota Humanities Center and workshop out of the Metro area.)
TO PLAN YOUR TRAINING
Please contact our Program Manager, Julianne Schwietz, 651-772-4246,
julianne@mnhum.org to make all arrangements for this training to be facilitated at your site.
DESCRIPTION
This professional development offering will introduce the Minnesota Humanities Center professional development approach and provide a foundation for incorporating Absent Narratives into the curriculum. A historical overview of the construction of race and identity will present teachers with the opportunity to engage in a process of necessary self-reflection. Concepts addressed during the course include the social construction of race, the concept of white as a race, the costs of assimilation, and epistemology or ways of knowing.
The offering then begins to guide educators in a thoughtful manner towards incorporating the stories, art, music, histories, and lived traditions whose lacking fundamentally exacerbates the ever widening achievement gap. Participants are exposed to examples of narratives that are missing from mainstream curricula today. Opportunities will be provided to explore Absent Narratives through the careful examination of selected historical, literary, and arts examples.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Goal: Participants will examine the construction of race and epistemology and provide educators with a foundation for incorporating Absent Narratives into the curriculum.
Objectives:
• Participants will examine racial categories and classifications as evolved entities from a historical perspective.
• Participants will explore the costs of racism.
• Participants will reflect on the connection between knowledge construction and racial identity.
• Participants will examine Absent Narratives through humanities content.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
The professional development opportunity was designed by Minnesota Humanities Center staff educators with scholarly contributions by Dr. Omowale Akintunde, Dr. Matthew Brandt, Alexs Pate, and Dr. Keith Mayes. This workshop is facilitated by trained Humanities Center staff who participated in the development of this course.