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“Educating for Activism” in Japanese journal, Five

In summer 2017, Cathy N. Davidson published “Educating for Activism,” in the Japanese journal Five, edited by Shin Mizukoshi, et al. “In times of political turmoil, such as the present, one is reminded of Antonio Gramsci’s famous injunction to have “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

CUNY Humanities Alliance

The CUNY Humanities Alliance, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is dedicated to training Ph.D. students in the most successful methods for teaching humanities courses in some of the country’s most diverse undergraduate classrooms. Co-directed by Cathy N. Davidson, the Humanities Alliance is a partnership between the Graduate Center and LaGuardia Community CUNY Humanities Alliance

Structuring Equality: A Handbook for Student-Centered Learning and Teaching Practices

The essays in this collection were written collaboratively, with feedback, insights, discussion, and inspiration from the dozen students in “American Literature, American Learning,” a graduate class taught by Cathy N. Davidson.  Thanks to a grant from the Teagle Foundation, a team of undergraduates were taught how to do professional copy editing, proofreading, and book design Structuring Equality: A Handbook for Student-Centered Learning and Teaching Practices

Mapping the Futures of Higher Education

Conceived and taught by Futures Initiative Director Cathy N. Davidson and Graduate Center President Emeritus William P. Kelly, Mapping the Futures of Higher Education was a radically interdisciplinary graduate class that used innovative pedagogy and a new open source online tool to connect and network more than 365 undergraduate students across ten CUNY colleges, each Mapping the Futures of Higher Education

Structuring Equality Now Available

Students in Cathy N. Davidson’s spring 2016 “American Literature, American Learning” course wrote this book to teach others how to turn any class into an engaged, active, student-led and student-centered learning experience. “Structuring Equality shows us how to turn the theories of Dewey, Freire, hooks, and Dweck into actual pedagogical practice. It’s a step-by-easy-step guide, with Structuring Equality Now Available

“The Future of Education is Now” in Anthropology News

On January 13, 2017, Cathy N. Davidson’s article “The Future of Education is Now” was published in Anthropology News. As Davidson writes in the article: We must radically reform higher education to meet the most pressing needs of our age. It’s Taco Day at Meadowlark Retirement Community in Manhattan, Kansas. “The students usually sit with “The Future of Education is Now” in Anthropology News