Tune In: The Multi-Pandemic Podcast with a Letter to the Youth
A Note from the Hosts:
No Learning Lost features a letter of love to youth drafted by educators, and inspired by an exceptional generation of youth in America who have adapted to a very unconventional and challenging educational setting. Exploring how the intersections of racial and economic injustice have shaped youths’ learning experiences during the pandemic, we offer recommendations for how schools might welcome and elevate youths’ powerful learning and wisdom gleaned from their efforts to survive and thrive in a multi-pandemic.
Rapid Learning for Justice is a collaboration between academic researchers at the University of Michigan and community partners at two long-term partnerships in the Midwest and West Coast. We collaboratively study how people learn science during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its intersections with justice, in real time in everyday living, and how they activate this scientific knowledge, alongside other powerful forms of knowledge and practice, towards decision-making and action-taking. We center how youths’ and adults’ critical consciousness around racial, educational, and economic justice shapes their learning and action taking about COVID-19.
We are a group of academic researchers at the University of Michigan who have spent years working with and/or living as BIPOC in economically disadvantaged communities. We’ve witnessed the trauma of structural neglect prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we have researched the realities of communities living through the pandemic. This project, in collaboration with our community partners, drawing upon critical justice and consequential learning, studies how people learn science during the COVID-19 pandemic in real time in everyday living, and how they activate this scientific knowledge, alongside other powerful forms of knowledge and practice, towards decision-making and action-taking. We center how youths’ and adults’ critical consciousness around racial, educational, and economic justice shapes their learning about COVID-19.
Our work is funded by the National Science Foundation # 2028370
Feel free to visit learning4justice.org to learn more. Reach out to multipandemic-podcast@umich.edu to contact us!
