The UC Irvine Office of Inclusive Excellence put out a call to for project that respond to address the needs of the UC Irvine community while confronting extreme ideology. Dr. Adriana Villavicencio, Dr. Doron Zinger, and Socorro Cambero received a small award to pursue project called, Confronting Extremism through Culturally Responsive Pedagogies in a STEM Educator Program. This work set the foundation for the CalTeach books clubs during the 2021-2022.
This exhibit will include the various pits stops throughout the book club journey, which I conceptualize as being a few of the actionable steps the collective makes. For instance, students reflect and share on how they foresee themselves taking action in different spaces including class, when navigating with teacher colleagues, or their families. Importantly, the actionable steps can look different, thus there will be different collections of actionable steps.