Listening and Desire: Community-Based Policy and Pedagogy
Schedule
Fri Feb 20 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Car Barn 301 | Washington, DC
About this Event
The M.A. Educational Transformation and the Program in Education, Inquiry & Justice invite you to a talk by Dr. Sandra K. Vanderbilt on "Listening and Desire: Community-Based Policy and Pedagogy"!
This in-person event is open to members of the Georgetown University community and non-Georgetown University members who have registered for the event. Attendance will be taken at the door.
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This event will be recorded.
Friday, February 20, 5:00pm-6:30pm ET
Car Barn 301
Georgetown University
3520 Prospect Street NW
For questions or accommodations, contact Anne Musica at [email protected].
Abstract
In this lecture Dr. Vanderbilt will invite audience members to consider how they make decisions and who informs choices made in advancing policy and in the classroom. Dr. Vanderbilt will begin by sharing examples from her own research and community-based practice that illuminate the central idea of listening to community members, students, families, and other stakeholders and their desires as the basis for decision-making rather than outside expertise. She will then present the rationale for and practical suggestions to careful engaged listening as the basis of decision-making. Dr. Vanderbilt will offer further ideas for trust-building in community-based spaces and classrooms before concluding with a short time for audience questions.
Sandra K. Vanderbilt, Ph.D.
Dr. Sandra K. Vanderbilt is an educator and community-based researcher in Washington, DC. Her research interests include youth storytelling, counterstory, critical literacy, critical dis/Abilities studies, dis/Ability justice, and the life and educational philosophy of Mr. Rogers. She is currently engaged in an archival project in partnership with Fred Rogers Institute for which she has been able to include graduate students. Dr. Vanderbilt is also currently engaged in exploring the ways teachers experience teaching reading.
Dr. Vanderbilt is the current President of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS), having served on the executive leadership board since 2022. Dr. Vanderbilt is also a board member for the Foundation of Curriculum Theorizing and serves as co-editor of general topics for the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Previously a schoolteacher and reading specialist in Chicago and Washington, DC, she continues to work with schools, neighborhood community centers, and local arts-based and youth activist organizations.
Where is it happening?
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