Culturally relevant pedagogy and practices should focus on empowering students and teaching them about self-authorship, transformational learning, and professional identity development. Using Prilleltensky's (1997) concept of emancipatory communitarianism, culturally relevant pedagogical strategies and practices will be presented as a counter to modernistic practices promoted by accreditation efforts. Participants will be engaged in brainstorming possible ways to infuse emancipatory communitarianism into their programs, classrooms, and supervision.
Passions include school counseling, leadership, multicultural counseling, pedagogy, creativity -- I think I must be the posterchild for Research ADD (the newest diagnosis in the DSM-V).
