Social Justice and Healing Pedagogies: The Framework for Understanding our Collective Work

Join us for a 150-minute seminar on understanding the Social Justice Healing Pedagogy (SJHP) model. The SJHP model draws on long-standing as well as emerging methods to study how systems of oppression develop, and the harmful effects on marginalized people and communities. This model can be adapted to all disciplines.

This program is free and open to the Metro State community. Coffee and pastries will be served.

Participants will be able to apply the SJHP model in lessons in their unique discipline. This model allows room for telling not only individual stories but bigger stories of society and oppression. Participants will examine the following six sectors for Social Justice and Healing Pedagogy:

• History, Culture, Language, and Traditions
• Roots of Systemic Bias and Discrimination
• Raising Critical Consciousness
• Storytelling and the Arts
• Wounds, Culprits, and Transformation
• Critical Events: Leadership, the Call to Action and Change.

Participants will engage in facilitated conversations, share individual experiences, and reflect upon culture, identity, and purpose. Ideas for lessons, units, and/or course design, will be covered during our time.

Aura Wharton-Beck, EdD currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Fellow at the University of St. Thomas. Wharton-Beck’s professional career includes serving as an elementary and middle school teacher, a school district mentor teacher, an elementary school principal, and an adjunct faculty member in higher education. Wharton-Beck’s research agenda focuses on diverse feminist perspectives, school leadership, social justice and healing pedagogies, African American women’s history, and the intersectionality of public policy, race, class, transportation, and housing. Contact via: anwhartonbec@stthomas.edu.