Critical Friends Group: Unpacking Cultural Dilemmas in Special Education Teaching and Learning
Abstract
This sessions focuses on the complex process of facilitating a Critical Friends Group as a form of a professional learning community for Higher Education Special Education. During a two-year initiative, doctoral students and university faculty created a forum to meaningfully collaborate and facilitate opportunities and support for unpacking cultural dilemmas in activist-centered culturally responsive teaching and learning in the field of Special Education. Critical Friends Groups use protocol guides to actively engage its members in learning, thinking, reading and discussing dilemmas from multiple perspectives. This session reviews the literature of Critical Friends Groups, the work of this particular Critical Friends Group and concludes by providing a rationale and methods for sustainability of culturally and linguistically responsive Critical Friends Groups in Institutions of Higher Education.
Location
Room 2010
Recommended Citation
Carter-Hicks, Joya, "Critical Friends Group: Unpacking Cultural Dilemmas in Special Education Teaching and Learning" (2015). SoTL Commons Conference. 64.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2015/64
Critical Friends Group: Unpacking Cultural Dilemmas in Special Education Teaching and Learning
Room 2010
This sessions focuses on the complex process of facilitating a Critical Friends Group as a form of a professional learning community for Higher Education Special Education. During a two-year initiative, doctoral students and university faculty created a forum to meaningfully collaborate and facilitate opportunities and support for unpacking cultural dilemmas in activist-centered culturally responsive teaching and learning in the field of Special Education. Critical Friends Groups use protocol guides to actively engage its members in learning, thinking, reading and discussing dilemmas from multiple perspectives. This session reviews the literature of Critical Friends Groups, the work of this particular Critical Friends Group and concludes by providing a rationale and methods for sustainability of culturally and linguistically responsive Critical Friends Groups in Institutions of Higher Education.
