Event Title
Concurrent Session 3D. Countering Potential Student Disengagement, Discomfort, and Disillusionment: Grounding Social Justice Learning within a Socio-Historical Framework
Location
Room 402
Start Date
5-10-2012 3:30 PM
End Date
5-10-2012 4:30 PM
Description
Explores the role of lawyers in social justice movements and the ways in which lawyers effectively and ineffectively collaborate with community organizations and other institutions. Presenters will introduce two class designs focusing on the Labor Movement, specifically the collective bargaining power of taxi workers in New York City, and the Immigrant Rights Movement, specifically the Sanctuary movement in the 1980s and 90s that granted immigration relief to thousands of Central Americans. Attendees will also receive participatory exercises for use in the classroom that allow students to recognize their contribution to a broader movement.
Concurrent Session 3D. Countering Potential Student Disengagement, Discomfort, and Disillusionment: Grounding Social Justice Learning within a Socio-Historical Framework
Room 402
Explores the role of lawyers in social justice movements and the ways in which lawyers effectively and ineffectively collaborate with community organizations and other institutions. Presenters will introduce two class designs focusing on the Labor Movement, specifically the collective bargaining power of taxi workers in New York City, and the Immigrant Rights Movement, specifically the Sanctuary movement in the 1980s and 90s that granted immigration relief to thousands of Central Americans. Attendees will also receive participatory exercises for use in the classroom that allow students to recognize their contribution to a broader movement.