micky renders: Adult Education Portfolio

  • micky renders Introduction
  • Narrative overview and theoretical frameworks
    • Context: Peterborough Alternative and Continuing Education
    • Visual Art Education and Community Development Overview
    • Global Education
    • Eco Action
    • Celebrating Diveristy
    • Giving voice
    • Partnerships and Community Building
    • Mindfulness in Eduction
    • Feedback, Reflection and Future Goals
    • References
  • Contact
  • micky renders Introduction
  • Narrative overview and theoretical frameworks
    • Context: Peterborough Alternative and Continuing Education
    • Visual Art Education and Community Development Overview
    • Global Education
    • Eco Action
    • Celebrating Diveristy
    • Giving voice
    • Partnerships and Community Building
    • Mindfulness in Eduction
    • Feedback, Reflection and Future Goals
    • References
  • Contact

Celebrating Diversity


Young people are social and harnessing the "cool" factor acts as a contagion for ideas to spread through the student population. I began to use more and  more positive approaches to promote issues - fun activities that energized and raised awareness throughout the whole school. Inside and outside of the class, celebrating diversity through these events was part of my effort to create a kinder, more inclusive community, less afraid of difference. We created work in my classes on the theme of celebrating diversity, a large rainbow mural for the school hall way, made banners for the Anishinaabe Teachings of the  Four Directions for the library, and organized a week-long series of events that involved the whole school. Through out my career I worked with the Queer and Trans students - supporting them, giving them a social space, sharing and learning from each other, empowering and moving their issues into the main stream. Below are examples of student work from various projects  on the subject of diversity completed in class.
CLICK HERE FOR VIDEOS AND ACTIONS TOWARDS CREATING A QUEER POSITIVE SPACE
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              The OUTSIDER COMMUNITY ART PROJECT (with Kim Renders)
As part of Nuit Blanche, an all night art event in downtown Toronto, fifty OUTSIDERS were created  and offered to the public to be shown around and welcomed. Images of the interactions were shared on social media. Over one million people attended.


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