Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFPFELLOW)
天美传媒, School of Education through Directorate of Linkages, Outreach and Consultancies partnered with the Rutgers University Department of Learning and Teaching through a program called Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship based on project activities such as curriculum co-development, research collaboration, and/or graduate student mentoring and training.
天美传媒 is therefore proud to host Dr. Esther Ohito from the Rutgers University on the following project entitled 鈥淓ducation, Knowledge, and JoLuo of Western Kenya: Socially Just Teaching through Luo Language, Literature, and Culture.鈥
PROJECT OVERVIEW
The articulated objectives for this fellowship are as follows:
1.听听 听Curriculum Development: To assist teacher education faculty and students in developing arts curricula using knowledge of creativity in education for social change.
2.听听 听Research Collaboration: To assist faculty and students in developing individual research projects and publications that allow for the dissemination of rigorous research in arts-based social justice education.
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Phase I Activities (first visit): 听Curriculum Development Project and Research听
Dates: April 3 - 18, 2022 (15 Days)
During her vistit, Dr. Ohito will meet the community, key partners and engage teacher education faculty and students for initial relationship-building and in pre-planning for a bi-lingual (English and Dholuo) book with lesson plans and teaching guides co-authored with faculty and students. The book is tentatively titled Education, Liberation, and JoLuo of Western Kenya: Socially Just Teaching Through Luo Language, Literature, and Culture.听
Dr. Esther Ohito鈥檚 Biography听
Dr. Esther Ohito is a curriculum and cultural theorist, literacy teacher educator, and education researcher who favors (Black) feminist qualitative approaches. She is interested in the entangled politics of blackness, gender, race, and knowledge production at the nexus of curriculum, pedagogy, embodiment, and emotion.听
She is a co-author of Equity & Excellence in Education , and a co-founder Black Girlhoods in Education Research Collective (BGERC).
She is currently an Assistant Professor of English Education, and Literacy Education, in the Department of Learning and Teaching at Rutgers University.