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The Experiential Politics of Popular Education

It came to my attention recently that I’ve not seen (or don’t remember) a place where the politics embedded in popular education pedagogies are made explicit. Even finding the right language for this has been challenging, and I’ve searched under a number of terms. At best, this is described as the “values” of popular education, […]

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Stop making guidelines and ground rules. Make practices instead.

We’ve been taught that a cornerstone of good teaching, workshop, and group practice is creating community ground rules or guidelines. The theory is something like: If we create some rules together, we’re more likely to stick to them, and we can do better at creating a safe space. The approach is something like: Collectively discuss […]

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Transitioning to Teaching Online – Contemporary Issues in Youth Development, the Class Log & the Process Log

The Class Log is a document that you will use over the course of the semester to log your in-class activities, preparing for class activities, and to keep your Process Log. You should have a minimum of one entry per week for the duration of the semester (15 weeks), plus any additional logs for second class […]

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Transitioning to Teaching Online – Contemporary Issues in Youth Development, OER Project

This is another post in my series on developing my Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers class as an online course for this fall. The series begins with Part 1. The last 6 posts about this teaching transition have been about course content. They are: Content Updates Chapter 1 – Ourselves as Youth Chapter 2 […]

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Transitioning to Teaching Online – Contemporary Issues in Youth Development, Chapter 5: Youth Development and Youth Work

This is another post in my series on developing my Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers class as an online course for this fall. The series begins with Part 1. This is “Chapter” 5 of the interactive and experiential OER I will develop with my students this fall. This will likely be module 5 / […]

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Transitioning to Teaching Online – Contemporary Issues in Youth Development, Chapter 4: Identity and Development

This is another post in my series on developing my Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers class as an online course for this fall. The series begins with Part 1. This is “Chapter” 4 of the interactive and experiential OER I will develop with my students this fall. This will likely be module 4 / […]

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Transitioning to Teaching Online – Contemporary Issues in Youth Development, Chapter 3: The Politics of Youth Development

This is another post in my series on developing my Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers class as an online course for this fall. The series begins with Part 1. This is “Chapter” 3 of the interactive and experiential OER I will develop with my students this fall. This will likely be module 3 / […]

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Transitioning to Teaching Online – Contemporary Issues in Youth Development, Chapter 2: Adolescence

This is another post in my series on developing my Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers class as an online course for this fall. The series begins with Part 1. This is “Chapter” 2 of the interactive and experiential OER I will develop with my students this fall. This will likely be module 2 / […]

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Transitioning to Teaching Online – Contemporary Issues in Youth Development, Chapter 1: Ourselves as Youth

This is another post in my series on developing my Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers class as an online course for this fall. The series begins with Part 1. This is “Chapter” 1 of the interactive and experiential OER I will develop with my students this fall. This will likely be module 1 / […]

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Transitioning to Online Teaching (Part 2) – Content Updates

This is the second in a series of think-aloud posts on Transitioning to Online Teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1 is here. The course I teach is called Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers. Overview of Content I am planning to write an interactive, experiential book with my students this Fall 2020 semester. I […]