Welcome to the IIQI (International Institute for Qualitative Inquiry) Collaborating Site of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. We are pleased to join IIQI's global network.
Many faculty members in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction explore ways to integrate our research and teaching agendas with community well-being and flourishing, both within a local and global context. We seek to educate for human rights, social justice, and peace. One could say that we hope to imbue our lives and work with the quality of "Ubuntu," an African sensibility, which Desmond Tutu describes in No Future Without Forgiveness (1999) as "the very essence of being human."
Here are some of our projects:
- Creation of an Education and Labor Collaborative interested in conducting qualitative research examining what young people are taught (or more typically not taught) about class and labor issues in schools, socializing institutions, and the popular media. We take an activist approach to this inquiry and aim to organize educators, communities, and unionists to work together for alternative ways of educating young people.
Project Web Site
Forum Web Site
- Peace and Human Rights Education—This year we will be organizing our fourth annual Teaching for Peace and Human Rights Conference that brings together educators from around the globe to collaborate on teaching strategies and ideas on human rights advocacy. (This conference is co-sponsored by Adelphi University and the United Nations.)
Conference Web Site
- Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum Partnership to address "Anti-Indianism" in the general K–12 curriculum. We work together to provide workshops and resource materials to help local teachers gain cultural competency in the authentic history and contemporary interests of Long Island's Indigenous community.
- Service-learning and community-based learning initiatives involving, among other projects, the creation in 2004 of the Caroline Wambui Mungai Foundation, which currently provides a caring home and schooling for 43 children, ages 3-10 in Wangige, Kenya.
We look forward to adding more initiatives to our site in the coming year and welcome the comments, suggestions and collaborative interests of our IIQI colleagues.
Upcoming Events
Education & Labor Collaborative Forum 2009:
Teachers and the New "New Deal"
April 24–25, 2009
United Teachers of Los Angeles
3303 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010
Fourth Annual Conference on Teaching for Peace and Human Rights.
Special Focus: The Rights of Children.
May 28–29, 2009
May 28, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
May 29, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.,
UN Headquarters, New York, NY
For more information, email: verma@adelphi.edu or linne@adelphi.edu
Related Publications
Caracciolo, D. (2008). Addressing Anti-Indianism in the Mainstream Curriculum: A Partnership Model. Multicultural Perspectives, 10(4), 224-228.
Caracciolo, D. (2009). By their very presence: Rethinking research and partnering for change with educators and artists from Long Island’s Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22 (9).
Linne, R., Benin, L. & Sosin, A. (in press). Organizing the Curriculum: Perspectives on Teaching the U.S. Labor Movement. The Netherlands: Sense Publishers,
articles forthcoming in Winter 2009 New Labor Forum Journal.
Mungai, A & Kogan, E. (2005). Pathways to Inclusion: Voices from the Field. Lanham: Unversity Press Of America.
Mungai A. (2002). Growing up in Kenya; Rural Schooling and Girls. NY: Peter Lang Publishers.
Mungai, A. (2002). Multicultural Issues in Education. Journal of Culture and Education, 6(1).
Verma, R. (2008). Backlash: South Asian Immigrant Voices on the Margins. The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
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