The Departments of Anthropology and Education at Maynooth University invite you to this Interdepartmental Seminar Series in Anthropology & Education. ONE-DAY CONFERENCE on Tuesday 25th March 2025, co-sponsored by the Maynooth University Centre for European and Eurasian Studies,
New Approaches to Participatory Action Research in Social Sciences: Focus on Democratic Citizenship Education across Different National Contexts
You can opt to attend the full day or just the keynote at 16:30-18:00.
Register to attend here, please RSVP before 20th March 2025.
This conference brings together academics and teachers from Ireland, Northern Ireland, the United States, Poland and the Czech Republic for one-day of sharing new approaches to participatory action research (PAR) in social sciences. Our special guest Prof. Beth C. Rubin from Teachers College, Columbia University will share her long-term experience in developing PAR in collaboration with teachers and youth in urban settings drawing on her recent publication, Youth Participatory Action Research in Your Classroom: Teaching and Learning for Active Citizenship.
The afternoon session will be structured as an open dialogue between participants and social science teachers and teacher educators from Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic and Northern Ireland. The methodological focus of the conference is on PAR through the lens of democratic citizenship education.
The conference will be concluded with a keynote by Beth C. Rubin, in which she illustrates and theorizes a “critical ecosystems” view of civic learning as collectively produced, historically and structurally situated, & affective and relational. This expansive understanding of civic learning is rooted in findings from a social design project in which civic action research investigations conducted by youth in communities impacted by structural inequality catalyzed densely interwoven, affectively infused networks of cross-district interaction and action.
Programme Outline:
9:30 – 10:00
Registration and coffee
10:00 – 13:00
Workshop - PAR in Your/Your Students’ Classrooms: An Interactive Civic Learning Workshop (led by Beth C. Rubin)
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Teachers and Teacher Educators Sharing Ideas and Examples of PAR and Democratic Citizenship Education through Lightning Talks and Open Discussion
16:30 – 18:00
Keynote - Beth C. Rubin. “It’s going to go beyond these walls”: Nurturing ecosystems of civic learning through youth participatory action research.
Practical Information:
The conference is free of charge and is open to teachers, researchers and academics. The morning workshop provides training in new approaches to PAR in social science education. All participants will receive a certificate of attendance.
You can opt to attend the full day or just the keynote from 16:30-18:00. Please get in touch with [email protected] if you require a letter of invitation for your school.
Registration here