Teaching English as a Revolutionary Act: Community-Based Contexts

• 1:45 p.m. Video presentation from Pitzer's Ecuador study abroad site with a Pitzer student sharing how our community partners there, Yachay Wasi, teach from a Quechua indigenous epistemological perspective and how that impacts how they teach English and beyond.
• 2 p.m. Jose Calderon, speak to his own framework of how teaching English can be a revolutionary act and how/why/with what socio-political orientation he guided students to teach English at Pomona Day Labor Center over the years and how that impacted day laborers' work in the community.
• 2:15 p.m. Arianna Alfaro Porras, Pitzer Spanish-language teacher, speaking from a teaching languages perspective and strategies and how she does this work in her community-based classes and with the host-mothers in the Spanish community practicum.

This is an IGLAS-sponsored event that is held as part of GLAS101: From Global to Local: Community-Based Education and Research.

This event is open to all members of the The Claremont Colleges Community.