[youthradioleaders] resources on teaching, youth, pedagogy?

[Autumn Spanne]

Teaching Tolerance has great resources, lesson plans and links: 
  www.teachingtolerance.org 
   
Sounds like an ambitious but wonderful project. Good luck!
   
  Autumn 
  
Kaari Pitkin <kpitkin at wnyc.org> wrote:
  The organization Teen Empowerment in Boston published a book a few years
ago that provides some concrete exercises (games?) to help build strong
group dynamics and trust--while it isn't explicitly about diversity,
their model was designed in the context of a multi-ethnic youth
organization. 

http://www.movingbeyondicebreakers.org/


# For teachers and youth workers: Moving Beyond Icebreakers helps you
engage hard-to-reach youth and students of all ages, giving them
vehicles for participation that allow them to operate from a position of
strength.

# For social workers: Moving Beyond Icebreakers provides tools for group
building and individual growth -- creating bonds of trust, addressing
dysfunctional group dynamics, increasing group members' level of
reflection, and leading to change in the lives of the individuals you
are trying to reach.

# For organizers: Moving Beyond Icebreakers provides an approach that
can quickly build community, clarify difficult and complex issues,
invest group members in the mission, and help the group make decisions
and plan for effective action


-----Original Message-----
From: youthradioleaders-bounces at lists.prx.org
[mailto:youthradioleaders-bounces at lists.prx.org] On Behalf Of judy
fiestal
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:45 PM
To: Johanna (Jones) Franzel; Youthradioleaders at lists.prx.org; Kat Aaron
Cc: Sacajawea Hall; deepa fernandes
Subject: Re: [youthradioleaders] resources on teaching, youth, pedagogy?

Hi All-
What immediately comes to mind for me is the Rethinking Schools
organization which publishes a
quarterly magazine and books dealing with different issues that address
introducing young people
to social injustice issues: http://www.rethinkingschools.org. Although
geared for the public
school teacher- the activities they discuss can be easily adapted for a
variety of organizations
working with youth.
I'll look forward to hearing about more resources from the group.
Thanks for the discussion-

Judy Fiestal
KBOO Community Radio
Portland, Oregon


--- "Johanna (Jones) Franzel" wrote:

> Kat,
> 
> As a teacher, I often looked to (the now somewhat dated) Diversity in 
> Action, by Sharon Chappelle and Lisa Bigman. It's billed as an 
> experiential educator's guide to exploring "issues of diversity with 
> middle school and high school age youth," and is full of activities 
> that focus on issues of racial identity, sexual orientation, class and

> communication (among others). Though some of the exercises were more 
> successful than others, they often were great catalysts for group 
> discussion and conflict resolution, and the book includes questions to

> help with group process.
> 
> Educators for Social Responsibility 
> (http://www.esrnational.org/home.htm), has a number of publications
and 
> online resources to "help educators create safe, caring, respectful, 
> and productive learning environments."
> 
> I'd love to hear what other people have to suggest. Thanks for
posting 
> this question - sounds like you are creating a hugely valuable 
> resource!
> 
> Jones
> 
> On May 3, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Kat Aaron wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > We're trying to build our knowledge and our library over at People's
> > Production House and Radio Rootz. We're looking for books,
magazines,
> > videos, etc that talk about good ways to work with young people,
about
> > how to respect them and their ideas, how to support them well.
> >
> > We want books and tools on conflict resolution, confronting racism,
> > sexism, and heterosexism in healthy ways. Books with tools for
white
> > teachers working with young people of color, books on including
> > families in our youth work, books on how to work with public school
> > bureaucracies. Books by teachers, books by youth. You get the
idea.
> > And of course, we're looking for good books and tools on youth media
> > and youth organizing!
> >
> > I've been looking around the internet and talking to some folks, but
I
> > have not yet found a good list. If people send us ideas, we will
put
> > up a section of the Rootz website with compiles the responses we
get.
> > That way, we can thank everyone for taking the time to share their
> > knowledge by making it all accessible to a bigger audience, and
avoid
> > reinventing the wheel next time.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Kat and the Radio Rootz crew
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Kat Aaron
> > Co-Director, People's Production House
> > www.peoplesproductionhouse.org | www.wakeupcallradio.org
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://youthradioleaders.prx.org/youthradioleaders.html
> >
> Johanna (Jones) Franzel
> Generation PRX Project Director
> PRX Public Radio Exchange
> Ph. 617.230.7311
> 
> jones at prx.org
> http://www.generation.prx.org
> 
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