We are a group of academic researchers at the University of Michigan who have spent years working with and/or living as BIPOC in economically disadvantaged communities. We’ve witnessed the trauma of structural neglect prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we have researched the realities of communities living through the pandemic. This project, in collaboration with our community partners, drawing upon critical justice and consequential learning, studies how people learn science during the COVID-19 pandemic in real time in everyday living, and how they activate this scientific knowledge, alongside other powerful forms of knowledge and practice, towards decision-making and action-taking. We center how youths’ and adults’ critical consciousness around racial, educational, and economic justice shapes their learning about COVID-19.
Check out our new podcast series: Multi-pandemic Podcast
Episode 1: Vaccines and the Fight for Racial Justice
Episode 2: Youths’ Critical Data Practices in the Multi-pandemic
Episode 3: No Learning Lost: A Letter of Love and Hope to Youth