Dr. Hakim Williams, Hana Huskić, & Christina Noto
Moderated by Peter Coleman
Thursday, March 28, 5:00-7:30 pm
Milbank Chapel
Reception in Everett Lounge
The Department of International and Transcultural Studies, the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) and the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) invite you to the book launch of Disrupting Hierarchy in Education: Students and Teachers Collaborating for Social Change (Teachers College Press).
This timely book features rich examples of students and teachers, defined as learning partners, disrupting hierarchy in education by collaborating on social change projects. At the book’s core is Paulo Freire’s theorization of students and teachers working together toward co-liberation. Co-written by learning partners, each chapter in this collection highlights a social change project that puts Freire’s theories into action. Projects span a range of academic disciplines and geographical locations from K–12, university/college, and non-formal educational contexts. Appropriate as both a textbook and a primer on collaborative social change-making, Disrupting Hierarchy in Education offers inspiration and models of community-engaged learning programs from across the globe. Topics include community education, public writing, using media for popular education, adolescent and youth development, climate change education, peace and justice leadership development, revolutionary nonviolence, literacy teacher education, citizenship education, development of Latin American studies, palliative care, reflections on identity and subjectivity, antiracism education, trauma-informed pedagogy, wellness, and art curation.
Dr. Peter Coleman, Director of the MD-ICCCR, will moderate the event, and the co-editors will discuss some of the main ideas in the book and the process that brought them together.
Hana Huskić grew up in Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina. They graduated from the United World College in Mostar in 2017 and Gettysburg College in 2022 with a BA in Anthropology and minors in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Peace & Justice Studies. They live in Sarajevo and are completing a Master’s in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe coordinated by the University of Sarajevo and the University of Bologna.
Christina Noto grew up in Cooperstown, NY and graduated from Gettysburg College in 2019 with a BA in History and minors in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Peace & Justice Studies. After graduation, Christina completed an alternative teacher certification program and taught for three years in Washington DC. She now lives in Denver with her dog, Quincy.
Dr. Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, born and raised in Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago, is the inaugural Daria and Eric Wallach Professor of Peace & Justice Studies at Gettysburg College; he is also Associate Professor of Africana Studies, and affiliate of Education, International & Global Studies, and Public Policy. He adjuncts at the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is currently working on a Fulbright and Spencer Foundation funded project on decolonial peace and justice education in Jamaica, Ghana, Brazil and the USA.
Dr. Peter T. Coleman is a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University and a renowned expert on constructive conflict resolution, intractable conflict and sustaining peace. Dr. Coleman has authored or edited a dozen books, well over 100 scientific articles and chapters, is the recipient of various awards, and his work has been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Nature, Scientific American, PBS Newshour, and Harvard Business Review. His most recent book, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization (2021) was released by Columbia University Press.
