"Affirming Youth of Color in Educational and Community Spaces Through Skate Pedagogy"
The Dr. Porter Lee Troutman, Jr. Center for Multicultural Education and UNLV College of Education invite you to join us for a two-day event Feb. 28-29, 2024.
Day 2: Skate Jam!
The Skate Jam begins at 2 p.m. on Feb. 29 at Craig Ranch Skate Park. Attendees will have up close views of Apache Skateboards' professional skaters as they take to the skies in demonstrating the liberatory reality of skate pedagogy in real life! Attendees who come to skate will build solidarity skating with the Apache Skate Team and each other! Additionally, there will be skateboarding related T-shirt and professionally designed skateboard deck raffles and skate trick competitions and food!
What is skate pedagogy?
While the benefits of skating have long been known to skaters, from an educator, even a critically conscious educator lens, skating as a form of pedagogy is new in addressing the unfortunately durably hard problems of transforming education and educational spaces (and what counts as both) to meaningfully re/engage young people in learning and teaching, including by inspiring Youth of Color to become transformative educators.
