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Designed for various levels of faculty and students, these engaging webinars will help you learn more about our authors, textbooks, and initiatives. SAGE talks webinars offer you the opportunity to closely interact with authors as they explore some of today's top trends and discussions within the worlds of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences.
Upcoming Webinars:
White supremacy, “post-truth,” and the failure of imagination: An intercultural praxis approach
Kathryn Sorrells - California State University, Northridge
The first weeks of January 2021 brought several of our nation’s deep, enduring, painful and unaddressed failures into stark relief. Millions watched the violent storming of the Capitol by self-identified white nationalists and Trump supporters, ending with five people dead. What just happened? How could it have happened? Is this the beginning or end? In our so-called post-truth era, more information emerges, interpretations abound, and spin turns to dismissal and denial of facts. Yet, much has been revealed as the insurrection and the treatment of white nationalist insurrectionists is juxtaposed with the atrocities of racial injustice and the Black Lives Matter movement for intersectional justice.
How can we, as educators, engage our students in making sense of these critical issues? How can we use the classroom to harness our current moment and augment the shift in individual and collective awareness? How can we support students’ in translating increased awareness into responsible action for social justice? Using an intercultural praxis approach, Kathryn Sorrells addresses the pitfalls and possibilities of dismantling white supremacy, grappling with “post-truth” realities, and re-imagining our roles in creating a just, multicultural nation and world.
Kathryn Sorrells is a professor of Communication Studies and author of Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice.
March 10, 2021, 10 AM PST/ 1 PM EST
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Teaching Evaluation That Supports Social Justice and Social Change
This webinar highlights strategies for teaching and implementing evaluation approaches that are guided by values of social justice, cultural competence, contextual sensitivity, and community/stakeholder engagement. The presenters are Veronica Thomas from Howard University and Ryan Kilmer from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Thomas discusses how instructors can include pedagogical content and strategies to help students identify and work through bias and unchallenged assumptions and to acquire the skillset and sensibilities to plan quality evaluations tied to social justice aims. She provides illustrative examples of how issues of social justice, diversity, and inclusion can be at the center, rather than the margins, of the teaching of evaluation. Dr. Kilmer describes a partnership-based approach to evaluation and strategies for students to learn by doing. He discusses recommendations for how to build partnerships characterized by shared knowledge and collaborative processes; evaluations that yield actionable guidance for programs, organizations, and systems; and real-world opportunities for students to learn to develop pragmatic and usable evaluations that facilitate social and community change. Collectively, these presentations provide instructors with insights for helping students build evaluation skills and knowledge that are applicable across various settings and contexts and that address some of the challenges of conducting evaluations with diverse populations and partners.
Preparing Today's PR Students to Lead in Times of Change and Challenge
In this webinar, authors Janis Teruggi Page and Lawrence Parnell cover diversity in PR history and highlight PR’s role in social responsibility engagement. They discuss how various companies are implementing crisis management during a pandemic. And they highlight the digital skills essential to prepare PR students for their careers. The presentation gives you tips and resources to help prepare current PR students to be leaders in times of change and challenge.
Top tips for switching to teaching remotely with Tom Chatfield and Elspeth Timmans
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, many universities around the world are having to switch to online teaching and remote learning at scale and at speed. To support faculty in the challenges switching to teaching remotely brings, we hosted a webinar on how online teaching can be done right. Watch our webinar recording where online learning expert, Dr Tom Chatfield, and instructional designer extraordinaire, Elspeth Timmans, discuss top tips for switching to teaching remotely.
Having Conversations About Race in the Classroom
Please join us for a webinar with SAGE author and activist Stephanie Jirard for a discussion about “Having Conversations About Race in the Classroom.” The powerful protests of the past few weeks sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, and other injustices are giving voice to the profound changes needed in our country, in our communities, in our families, and in our individual lives to bring attention to and end systemic racism and inequality, but also in the classroom. The just, equitable, and thriving future we all hope for will depend in large part on how courageous each of us is willing to be to have difficult conversations with each other and those around us on and off campus. In this webinar, Stephanie Jirard will offer suggestions on how to approach this topic in the classroom to help prepare students to have these conversation and to facilitate critical thinking, social justice, and change.
Stephanie Jirard is the Title IX Coordinator and a professor of Criminal Justice at Shippensburg University and has received training on how to lead Courageous Conversations on race. Prior to teaching at Shippensburg, she was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps and served as a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division; a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office; an assistant Public defender at the Federal Public Defender’s Office; and a death-penalty defense lawyer with the Missouri Public Defender’s Capital Litigation Unit. As a professional coach, she also provides training on diversity and inclusion to organizations and agencies surrounding race, gender, LGBTQ, mental health, and the differently-abled.
Using Courseware in Criminal Justice Courses
In this webinar, Mary Dodge shares about how she has been successful using courseware in her criminal justice classroom, how this has had a positive impact on her teaching, and what her students' responses have been.