Category Archives: Justice

No Learning Lost: A Letter of Love and Hope to Youth No Learning Lost features a letter of love to youth drafted by educators, and inspired by an exceptional generation of youth in America who have adapted to a very unconventional and challenging educational setting. Exploring how the intersections of racial and economic injustice have shaped youths’ learning experiences during the pandemic, we offer recommendations for how schools might welcome and elevate youths’ powerful learning and wisdom gleaned from their efforts to survive and thrive in a multi-pandemic.

Youths’ Critical Data Practices during the Multi-Pandemic What are critical data practices and why should they matter? Youths’ Critical Data Practices during the Multi-Pandemic features youths’ voices and stories about how they built knowledge and strategies of action on health and safety, preventative care, and mental health, using both big and small data, during the pandemic. From CDC databases to Tik Tok videos, hosts, Angie and Day, discuss how youth have engaged with data to transform the world and the injustices they encounter as they navigate it. If you would like to learn more, please read our AERA Open manuscript, Youths’ Critical Data Practices (free download).

COVID-19 Vaccines and the Fight for Racial Justice COVID Vaccines and the Fight for Racial Justice features voices and stories about the complex decisions people make about the COVID-19 vaccines in connection to race and health-justice. Co-hosts Nyles, Day and Chandler give their unique takes on how the history of racism in medicine and health have shaped the Black communities’ experiences during COVID-19, and have informed decision-making on the vaccine.

Exploring the Connections between How People Learn and the Actions They Take during the Time of COVID-19 Featuring:  Angela Calabrese Barton & Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl Interview conducted by Erica Colaianne In this Michigan Minds podcast we talk about how we engage in participatory remote ethnography with long-term community partners to make sense of  what/how community partners learn about and take action on COVID-19 and justice-related concerns. We reflect on what motivated us to do this work — In particular a desire to use whatever expertise we have to try to make a difference in support of community health, well-being and justice during this pandemic. We also talk about why it is important that as we seek to create knowledge on this topic, it is critical to center and amplify the voices and experiences of our community partners who are shouldering the brunt of this multi-pandemic due largely to a history of systemic racism and…

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We report on how one community builds capacity for disrupting injustice and supporting each other during the COVID-19 crisis. We engaged long-term community partners (parents, their youth, and local community center leaders) in on-going conversation on their experiences with the pandemic. We learned with and from community partners about how and what people in communities most vulnerable in this crisis learn about and respond to COVID-19 in highly contextualized ways, individually and through extended family groups and trusted social networks. We report on how they put understandings towards educated, organized, urgent community infrastructuring actions within informal coalition networks. We explore these actions as necessary localized responses to systemic neglect from dominant institutional infrastructures during a global pandemic. Read more in our paper in Educational Researcher. Rapid Learning for Justice is a collaboration between academic researchers at the University of Michigan and community partners two long-term partnerships in the Midwest and West Coast to how people…

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