Motivation to Teach Social Action:
I am most interested in this opportunity because it aligns with my work advancing community cultural wealth through regenerative leadership, research, and transformative pedagogy, particularly in ways that center equity, lived experience, and community-driven impact.
Course Description:
In this course, students equip themselves with a deeper sense of collective cultural identity as they are exposed to and unpack components of Community Cultural Wealth. They identify "untapped potential" that works to dispel the myths that members of the African American culture operate from a deficit perspective. Linking theory to practice, students engage in cooperative learning that empowers them collectively through peer support, group work, role-playing, inquiry-based groups, expert jigsaw methods, and think-write-pair-share methods. Students will apply indigenous practices and principles of respect, relationship, representation, relevance, responsibility, and reciprocity. The regenerative design process will run parallel to the components of the Community Cultural Wealth model. This parallel enables the facilitation of biomimicry-inspired innovation. This transformative process moves students from snippets of understanding to the design of peer educator, group projects.
Taught By:
Deborah Warfield
A scholar of regenerative leadership and liberatory consciousness, advancing community cultural wealth through research, curriculum design, and transformative pedagogy.
Self-Employed
Southwestern College and New Earth Institute
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