Podcast on How People Learn about COVID-19 & Justice
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…
Learning as Alternative Infrastructuring
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…