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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Patrick Camangian
Associate Professor
University of San Francisco School of Education
Title: From Coping to Hoping: Teaching
Students to Thrive through Social Trauma
Host: City College of San Francisco
Coordinator: Kathleen White, kwhite@ccsf.edu
Presentation Description:
This presentation will juxtapose research in the health
sciences with critical pedagogy to inform a new paradigm
for thinking about pedagogy, complex traumas, and
education. This framework will serve as an analytical lens for
understanding the educational experiences of multiply
marginalized students and, more importantly, considering
ways in which the socially toxic stress disrupting their
learning can be more effectively remedied. This type of join us!
pedagogical approach to can facilitate critical hope and, in
turn, be transformative because it allow students to imagine Tuesday, October 6, 2020
ways they can thrive through socially toxic stress. 11:00 Am - 12:30
Register here
About Our Keynote Speaker:
Patrick Camangian (Ka-mung-yan), is an associate professor and department chair of
Teacher Education at the University of San Francisco School of Education. His
interdisciplinary scholarship on humanizing education intersects critical pedagogy, critical
literacy, and health science research. Camangian pursues these areas of interest
to improve the holistic learning outcomes for historically under-served students and
transform teacher quality, capacity, and retention. Camangian has been working in
schools since 1997, continuing in the tradition of teacher research, applying cutting-edge
pedagogies in schools, and more recently, informing district-wide policy and practice
through social design research and collaborations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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