Experience Learning: An Intergenerational Community of Practice on Learning Outside of the Classroom

The Youth Development and Career and College Readiness Unit at Metro offers this interactive community of practitioners in a series of intergenerational activities and reflections, centering the importance of experiential learning as a means to address issues of equity and social justice. Participants will explore multidisciplinary and multimodal pedagogical approaches tools to engage skill building, civic participation and future planning that are grounded and informed in youth voice research and art practice over many years. Through use of humanizing pedagogical tools to engage in rich discussion to critically examine the persisting tensions between in school and out of school learning as a means to find deeper partnership between traditional and non-traditional spaces of academic learning. Other issues discussed will include how students, teachers and youth development programs navigate various and often conflicting expectations throughout the school year.

Presenters: 

Patricia A Ryan-Canedo

Yolanda Fordham

Noor Jones-Bey

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