"Mommy, Wouldn't I Have Been a Slave Back Then?": Pastness as Position in Reconsidering History Education
Presented by DR. BETH RUBIN
Rutgers Graduate School of Education, New Brunswick, NJ
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Spring 2021 Open House
Thursday, February 18th 7:30-8:30 PM
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Past Events
YOUTH ASPIRATIONS IN EXILE: Participatory action research in Kakuma Refugee Camp
Monday, April 22, 2019 @ 6 PM
Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
Presented by DR. MICHELLE BELLINO
University of Michigan School of Education, Ann Arbor, MI
Drawing on ethnographic and participatory methods, this study examines schooling as a lens into daily experiences of (non)citizenship in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp, where youth lack legal status and experience habitual threats to inclusion, but nonetheless comprise members of civil society with agency and rights to uphold. As youth navigate precarious openings for education, work, and migration, the choices they make underscore economic and social status considerations, while working to be seen by others as productive nation-builders in exile. The study illustrates the ways that globally circulating ideologies such as individualized competition, embedded in imported Western models of schooling, impeded our capacity to forge a collective identity as Kakuma youth.
YOUTH MIGRATION, EDUCATION, AND MEGA CITIES: Promise and Peril in Karachi
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 @ 6 PM
James Room, 4th Floor, Barnard Hall
Presented by DR. DANA BURDE
New York University, New York, NY
Climate change, conflict, and the pursuit of better life opportunities push rural youth to migrate to urban areas. Between 2008 and 2014 climate-related disasters displaced an estimated average of 22.5 million people each year or approximately 62,000 per day, with most displacements occurring in places with weak political institutions (Koubi et al 2018, 2). In Pakistan alone, the 2010 floods affected an estimated 20 million people from an area the size of England (The Guardian, 27 January 2011). Millions of people were displaced in some of the most volatile areas of the country. Many rural Pakistani youth also migrate to urban areas to seek better life opportunities, including and especially education. This talk investigates youth experiences with the education system in Karachi in the face of these challenges, seeking to understand better why youth leave home, what their hopes are for their new urban lives, and how they try to address the challenges they face. Understanding these youths’ stories is a crucial first step toward systematically enhancing education services for youth in mega cities, easing the strains of migration, and strengthening the promise youth hold in these contexts.