Social Sciences Forum: Educating for Insurgency
Youth Organizing and the Baltimore Algebra Project
Location
On Campus : AOK Library - Gallery
Date & Time
October 28, 2015, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Description
Jay Gillen, Teacher, Baltimore City Public Schools
Jay Gillen and young people of The Baltimore Algebra Project will lead a discussion on ways students and adults in schools of poverty can see themselves as actors on the national stage, building towards insurgency from the “crawl space” of their classrooms.
You can learn more about the Baltimore Algebra Project online, and can read Jay Gillen's book Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty for more background information. Book review.
Co-sponsored by The Honors College and the Language, Literacy & Culture Program.
Jay Gillen and young people of The Baltimore Algebra Project will lead a discussion on ways students and adults in schools of poverty can see themselves as actors on the national stage, building towards insurgency from the “crawl space” of their classrooms.
You can learn more about the Baltimore Algebra Project online, and can read Jay Gillen's book Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty for more background information. Book review.
Co-sponsored by The Honors College and the Language, Literacy & Culture Program.
