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Opening Up To Hard History: Activating Anti-Racism In An Immersive Ed.D. Cohort Experience At Heritage Sites In Montgomery, Alabama, Theresa Coble, Corinne Wohlford Mason, Lisa Overholser, William Gwaltney
Opening Up To Hard History: Activating Anti-Racism In An Immersive Ed.D. Cohort Experience At Heritage Sites In Montgomery, Alabama, Theresa Coble, Corinne Wohlford Mason, Lisa Overholser, William Gwaltney
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The Ed.D. program in Heritage Leadership for Sustainability, Social Justice, and Participatory Culture at the University of Missouri—St. Louis helps students cultivate the mindsets and skill sets required to sustain, pluralize, and enliven heritage in the public sphere. Although the program primarily meets synchronously online, the January 2020 “Wintercession” field trip to heritage sites in Montgomery, Alabama, provided an opportunity for face-to-face interactions, deep conversation, and reflection. Curricular, conversational, and collaborative inquiry deepened awareness and activated activism toward issues of racial justice. The use of high-impact practices (Kuh, 2008) allowed the cohort and faculty mentors to delve further into heritage …