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Title: Coffee Cups, Frogs, and Lived Experience


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Coffee Cups, Frogs, and Lived Experience
  • Bertram (Chip) Bruce
  • Graduate School of Library and Information
    Science
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2
Communities
  • Learning communities
  • Online communities
  • Bringing the community into the classroom (Moll
    funds of knowledge)
  • Taking the classroom to the community (service
    learning)

3
The community is the curriculum
  • The good we secure for ourselves is precarious
    and uncertain until it is secured for all of us
    and incorporated into our common life. --Jane
    Addams

4
Dewey on inquiry
  • Thus the question of integration of mind-body in
    action is the most practical of all questions we
    can ask of our civilization. ... Until this
    integration is effected in the only place where
    it can be carried out, in action itself, we shall
    continue to live in a society in which a soulless
    and heartless materialism is compensated for by
    soulful but futile idealism and spiritualism.

5
Progressive education
  • Respect for diversity, meaning that each
    individual should be recognized for his or her
    own abilities, interests, ideas, needs, and
    cultural identity, and
  • the development of critical, socially-engaged
    intelligence, which enables individuals to
    understand and participate effectively in the
    affairs of their community in a collaborative
    effort to achieve a common good. --John Dewey
    Project on Progressive Education, U Vermont

6
Social reconstruction
  • There is no good education apart from some
    conception of the good society...The great
    weakness of progressive education is that it has
    elaborated no theory of social welfare. --George
    Counts, PEA address, 1932
  • Ella Flagg Young on teaching democracy

7
Public spaces
  • it is not only a matter of admission and
    inclusion in predefined public spaces it is...a
    matter of transformation of our institutions and
    public spaces --Greene, 1998

8
Self awareness
  • Our students dont come here because they are
    consciously seeking a liberating education or
    because they support Puerto Rican independence.
    They come here because they know that this school
    will work hard not to neglect them and because
    theyll find out who they are. Iván, a teacher

9
Nurturing
  • This school is my sanctuary. I know this because
    once I step outside these doors my problems come
    back. Theyre just waiting outside the doors to
    smack me in my face and start all over again. I
    stay at this school because I dont have to worry
    about my problems. I got my mind set on other
    things. Damien, a PACHS student, in
    Antrop-González, 2003

10
Healthy environment
  • Dicen que el Coquí no puede cantar ni vivir fuera
    de la isla. Aquí, el Coquí canta a su isla con
    amor, sobreviviendo a la ciudad de los vientos
    aun en temperaturas bajo cero. --Luis Padial
    Doble

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PACHS curriculum
  • the development of cognitive skills in the areas
    of Natural and Social Science, Mathematics,
    Communications, and the Arts.
  • the development of self-identity and self-worth
    by analyzing the Puerto Rican and Latino reality.
  • hands-on experience... video, bomba y plena,
    typing, dance, guitar and journalism.

12
Youth activism community change
  • Ginwright, Noguera, Cammorota, 2006
  • self awareness
  • social awareness
  • global awareness

13
Community Media Lab
  • La Voz community newspaper, part of the
    Participatory Democracy Project
  • Theater, e.g., The Spark/La Chispa, about the
    1966 Division St. riots
  • Community Internet Radio
  • Podcasts of oral histories

14
Café Teatro Batey Urbano
  • Cyber Wash
  • by Ghost

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Social justice technology
  • economic development
  • individual
  • community
  • liberatory possibilities
  • critique of oppression

16
Networked information systems
  • Rehab donated computers
  • Configure operating systems, software
  • Local distance networking
  • Set up a community technology center
  • Teach people in the site

17
Inquiry-based learning
  • Fall 2006 uiuc.edu/goto/ibo
  • Students worked with community members
    Digital Archive, literacy across the curriculum,
    hydroponics garden, violence reduction, community
    wellness program
  • Inquiry units inquiry.uiuc.edu (PACHS)
  • Developing better communication practices

18
Community Informatics
  • Community information systems
  • Professional research in action
  • CI Corps practicum
  • Networked information systems
  • Inquiry-based learning

19
Students
  • Ive always been passionate about literacy and
    social justice. I also have always loved
    libraries. I just didnt know that those
    seemingly disparate interests could be joined.
    Growing up in inner-city Chicago as a child of
    immigrants, I spent most of my time at my
    neighborhood public library. Although my mother
    only made it to 6th grade in her native land of
    Mexico, she imbued us with a love for books.
    Reading opened up so many possibilities in my
    life because it provides access to information.
    --Dali

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Lessons
  • People participate because of felt needs
  • Community action mobilizes diverse interests
  • Challenges working across boundaries
  • Learning when theory is integrated with action
  • Technology is made, not found
  • Things belong together after they are brought
    together
  • Teaching as listening learning as telling

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The community is the curriculum
  • Highlander School Martin Luther King, Rosa
    Parks, Pete Seeger, Bill Moyers, Eleanor
    Roosevelt, ...
  • connections to Jane Addams, John Dewey
  • Myles Horton cannot teach responsible
    participation in democracy without access
  • we make the road by walking --Horton Freire

22
Coffee cups
  • Democracy is conversation. --John Dewey
  • La taza de café puertorriqueña that kept us going
    through the process.

23
Community as Intellectual Space
  • Paseo Boricua, June 15-17, 2007

24
Read more
  • Puerto Rican Cultural Center www.prcc-chgo.org
  • Community Informatics Corps masters program
    www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/ms/cic.html
  • Ginwright, et al., 2006, Beyond resistance!
    Youth activism and community change
  • Horton, 1990, The long haul
  • Coffee cups, frogs, lived experience
    www.uiuc.edu/goto/frogs

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Acknowledgements
  • Jose Lopez
  • Matt Rodriguez
  • Sunny Jeong
  • Muzhgan Nazarova
  • many more...
  • Batey Urbano
  • PRCC
  • Community Informatics Initiative
  • Ann Bishop
  • Sarai Lastra
  • Alejandro Luis Molina

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