Much of the research conducted through universities benefits from and/or depends upon community partnerships. Though these bonds can be productive for both sides, real worries persist about whether the exchange is ever fully reciprocal. Despite best efforts, it is fair to question whether university-community partnerships can ever escape a fundamental imbalance between them. This event’s speakers will share their experiences and expertise on the possibility of justice when universities and communities intersect.
Panelists
Ronald David Glass (Professor of Philosophy of Education, UC Santa Cruz)
Professor Glass currently investigates the ethical issues raised by justice-oriented collaborative research methodologies, and has long focused his philosophic work on education as a practice of freedom, ideological (trans)formation, and the role of education and public learning processes in creating a just, pluralistic democracy. He has also investigated school reform and collaborated with professional development schools in low-income, racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse communities. Professor Glass’s philosophy of praxis is rooted in his Civil Rights and anti-Viet Nam war movement experiences and his many years of working with aggrieved communities struggling for justice. Prior to serving on university faculties, Professor Glass directed the San Francisco-based Adult Education Development Project, and collaborated with Paulo Freire and Myles Horton, the world-renowned educators for democracy.
Timothy San Pedro (Associate Professor, Multicultural and Equity Studies in Education, OSU)
Professor San Pedro's scholarship focuses on the intricate link between motivation, engagement, and identity construction to curricula and pedagogical practices that re-focus content and conversations upon Indigenous histories, perspectives, and literacies. He worked with the Native American Next Step program in Arizona to expand Native American subjects and content in Phoenix-area schools as well as led professional development workshops on the Navajo Reservation that co-constructed and co-envisioned lessons and pedagogical decisions to sustain and support the cultures of students.
He is an inaugural Gates Millennium Scholar, Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Fellow, and a Ford Fellow.
Tasleem Padamsee (Assistant Professor, Health Services Management and Policy, OSU)
Professor Padamsee is a sociologist by training and brings theoretical and methodological tools from sociology and women’s studies to bear on public health problems. Her research explores the nexus of social inequality, public policy and health care. Dr. Padamsee is the Principal Investigator for two major ongoing projects. The first is a multi-method study of how diverse women at elevated risk for breast cancer make prevention decisions, and the effects of these decision-making processes on physical and psychosocial health. The second is an in-depth comparative study of how HIV/AIDS policies have been made in the United States and the United Kingdom over the past 30 years.
About CARE and COMPAS
COMPAS is a year-long series of interdisciplinary events on controversial topics of public concern such as immigration, sustainability, technology, and the role of markets. This year's theme addresses Education in our Democracy. The program aims to model civil and informed discussion of core ethical challenges facing our society.
CARE events promote multidisciplinary and exploratory discussion of cutting-edge issues in the field of research ethics. In doing so, CARE aims to advance Ohio State’s shared values and build a community around the topic of research integrity.
This event is being hosted in conjunction with CEHV's COMPAS program on Education in our Democracy.
