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.
Mission
Humanities Amped works with students, teachers, and communities to transform public schools into collaborative learning spaces that generate grassroots action toward social justice. Through core and elective courses, restorative practices, critical participatory action research, and public engagement, we catalyze the critical potential of civics, literature, history, communication studies, and the arts.
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.
Mission
Humanities Amped works with students, teachers, and communities to transform public schools into collaborative learning spaces that generate grassroots action toward social justice. Through core and elective courses, restorative practices, critical participatory action research, and public engagement, we catalyze the critical potential of civics, literature, history, communication studies, and the arts.
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.
2019 - 5th ANNUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
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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:
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:
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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.
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