Exploring the ways that service-learning represents "whiteness pedagogy" and collectively imagining new ways of structuring service-learning experiences that do not recreate this pedagogy but instead utilize different models, such as those found in critical race theory, feminist theory, indigenous ways of knowing, etc. Thinking about how the Civic Engagement spaces cater to white students, as they are heavily based in helping to reveal unjust structures/privileges in our society, which tend to be most hidden to students who benefit from those structures and privileges. What would it look like to design learning experiences that catered to students who already know the harmful effects of these structures and privileges?
Read more: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10665684.2012.715534?journalCode=ueee

Co-facilitators: Cara Scharf & Maya Stallings