What: Lunch and Learn presented by the School of Education's 2025 IGNITE Dean's Spring Speaker Series

Talk Title: “Towards Inquiry and Justice: Meeting the Needs of the Communities We Work With and For”

Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Time: 12 – 2 p.m.

Location: Posvar Hall, 5601

Speaker: Dr. Asif Wilson, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign College of Education

Talk Description: Launched by Dr. Asif Wilson in 2022, the Social Studies Network aims to cultivate more inquiry-based and justice-centered teaching and learning experiences in K-12 classrooms. With a reach of over 500,000 students and nearly 7,000 educators across Illinois, the Social Studies Network has made a large impact on practice in a short amount of time. During this presentation, Wilson will share more about the Social Studies Network’s founding, programming, funding, and research efforts. In doing so, Wilson will elicit memories and analyses of his praxes navigating the emergent tensions between scholarship deemed appropriate by the academy and the wants and needs of the communities Wilson is in partnership with.

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