CRITICAL PEDAGOGY FROM LOUISIANA

Humanities Amped is an innovative curricular program at McKinley Senior High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is a collection of English Language Arts, Social Studies, and elective classes based in critical participatory action research and culturally sustaining pedagogies.
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Mission
Humanities Amped provides transformative learning opportunities that awaken the capacities of students to take critically informed action within their own communities. We understand humanities education as an active doing in which research, civic action, and creative problem-solving fuel learning.

Vision
We envision public schools as intergenerational spaces for critical inquiry and concrete action in collaboration with local communities. Young people’s agency, well-being, and democratic participation drive the educational process. In such spaces, learning is pleasurable, generative, and rooted in relationships.

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2019 - 5TH ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Our yearly conferences are a celebration of the intellectual, creative, and civic contributions of youth.

This year the Humanities Amped program at McKinley Senior High School  will present over 87 projects they have done over this school year to engage their peers and communities in critical research and social action. 

​Check out the Conference Program and the Facebook Event

​Humanities Amped students are scholar-activists who design research projects that address problems in their communities. Read more about an Action Research project addressing food deserts here.