03/06/2023
In late 2019, training scholar Jeremy Jiménez was in Singapore, surveying and conducting focus group interviews with greater than 300 college students at two worldwide faculties.
What the assistant professor in SUNY Cortland’s Foundations and Social Advocacy Division realized about rising up in autocracies from the information types the idea for his deliberate Wednesday, March 22, speak titled “Don’t Say ‘It’s Going to Be Okay’: Studying and Instructing within the Age of Local weather Collapse.”
The lecture will start at 4:30 p.m. in Moffett Heart, Room 115.
A reception to welcome Jiménez precedes the dialogue at 4 p.m. within the adjoining Brooks Museum.
The speak continues the college’s yearlong 2022-23 Rozanne M. Brooks Lecture Sequence on the theme of “The Tradition of Reality.” The collection of talks and accompanying receptions are free and open to the general public. Seating might be restricted and can’t be exceeded so please come early to safe a seat.
Jiménez’ speak relies on his 2021 article, “‘Don’t Say It’s Going to Be Okay’: How Worldwide Educators Embrace Transformative Training to Assist Their College students Navigating Our International Local weather Emergency,” which he and Laura Moorhead, a Journalism Division college member at San Francisco State College, wrote for the worldwide, peer-reviewed open entry journal, Training Sciences.
Whereas he was in Singapore, college and employees members at taking part faculties shared their views and techniques to empower their college students to turn out to be change brokers by way of pedagogical strategies similar to hands-on studying, programs pondering and repair studying, Jiménez stated.
“Simply previous to the COVID-19 pandemic, many youngsters worldwide had engaged in class strikes to demand that their voices be heard relating to our local weather disaster,” Jiménez stated.
“This presentation highlights insights gleaned from these college students’ views on the local weather strike motion, particularly, and sustainability in training, broadly.”
“How do these members navigate expressing their evaluation of public responses to our local weather disaster within the particular context of residing in an authoritarian political surroundings that limits free expression?” he stated.
“And the way do they concurrently assist their college students think about constructive future alternate options within the midst of more and more dire local weather realities?”
Jiménez, who joined SUNY Cortland in fall 2017, has a Ph.D. in worldwide and comparative training from Stanford College in California, the place he additionally earned an M.A. in sociology. He has an M.Ed., social research training from Rutgers College in New Jersey, wherein state he’s licensed to show each secondary social research training and psychology. He acquired twin bachelor’s levels in historical past and psychology from Rutgers Faculty.
Among the many programs he has taught are Worldwide and Comparative Training and China & Taiwan: One Tradition, Two Political Methods, geared to college students who plan to check overseas.
In summer season 2018, Jiménez was an invited lecturer on the Xian Regular College, Xi’an, China, the place he taught a course to training doctoral college students titled Worldwide Textbook Analysis.
Additionally, this spring:
Adam Laats, an assistant professor in Binghamton College’s Division of Instructing, Studying and Instructional Management, will clarify on April 12 why the creationism tradition wars by no means finish, in a presentation known as “Evolution and All That: Why Individuals Can’t Cease Combating about Creationism.”
This yr’s collection encompasses how, within the final couple years, Individuals have reopened disputes about concepts that after appeared settled.
Books and matters are being banned in school rooms, social and information media is tormented by misinformation that’s swallowed by many, and the truth of the very science that underpins a lot of the trendy industrial world has come into query. Over the past decade, “fact” has appeared to turn out to be a uncommon useful resource.
The Brooks Sequence honors the late Distinguished Instructing Professor of sociology and anthropology emerita at SUNY Cortland Rozanne M. Brooks, whose donated particular assortment of ethnographic objects to the Sociology/Anthropology Division established the Brooks Museum in 2001.
The 2022-23 Brooks Lecture Sequence is sponsored by the Cortland Faculty Basis and Cortland Auxiliary. For extra data, contact collection organizer and Brooks Museum director Sharon Steadman, a SUNY Distinguished professor and chair of SUNY Cortland’s Sociology/Anthropology Division, at 607-753-2308.
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