Tuesday, June 10 – Pedagogies of Place

Session 1: Place-Based Pedagogies

8:45-9:15 Breakfast

9:15-10:30 Welcome!, our approach to this workshop, goals and expectations, and group introductions

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Panel Discussion: Locating ourselves in Queens

- - - - Johnathan Thayer (GSLIS)
      - Caitlin Colban-Waldron (QC Archives)
      - Norka Blackman-Richards (SEEK)
      - Lizandra Friedland (Office of Institutional Effectiveness)
      - Dean Savage (Sociology)

12:00-12:45 Lunch and Discussion

12:45-2:00 Student Roundtable: Learning in/about Queens

- - - - Hodaya Alon, rising sophomore
      - Matthew Paolucci, URBST graduate
      - Mehmood Ali Ursani, rising sophomore
      - Judy Wang, URBST graduate

2:00-2:15 Break

2:15-3:25 Teaching in Queens: Connecting Pedagogies of Place to Learning Goals

3:25-3:30 Wrap-up and Reminders

Whitehead, Colson. The Colossus of New York (New York: Penguin, 2003), excerpt.
Hum, Tarry. “Black Dispossession and the Making of Downtown Flushing.” Progressive City (2021)
Profile of Enrolled Students at Queens College (Fall 2024)
Fain, Paul. “Insider’s Take on CUNY’s Pathways.” Inside Higher Ed (2017)
Queens College Self-Study Report for Middle States (2017), pages 57-64 (starting with 3.6 “General Education”)

Munoz, Carolina Bank, Penny Lewis and Emily Molina. The People’s Guide to New York City (2022); Chapter 3, “Queens”
Gruenewald, David A. “The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place.” Educational Researcher 32, no. 4 (May 2003): 3–12. [PDF]
Gutierrez-Ujaque and Degan, Beyond critical pedagogy of place: sensory-embodied learning through the university campus (2023)
Tuck, Eve, Kara McCoy, and Marcia McKenzie, “Land Education: Indigenous, de-colonizing, and post-colonial perspectives on place and environmental education research.” Environmental Education Research 20, no. 1 (2014): 1-23. [PDF]
Tuck, Eve and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor” (Decolonization, 2012)