Center for Engaged Pedagogy

At the Center for Engaged Pedagogy, we believe that teaching and learning is a transformative process. Both students and teachers engage in meaningful teaching and learning practices that foster mutual growth and facilitate the collaborative cultivation of knowledge. We are committed to supporting and striving towards inclusive and innovative pedagogical practices that acknowledge diverse ways of knowing, forms of expertise, and academic pathways.

Global Reproductive Rights & Resistance | A Community Conversation & Workshop with Elizabeth Ananat, Kadambari Baxi, Cecelia Lie-Spahn, and Wendy Schor-Haim 

🌎This is an Office of the Provost event, co-sponsored by CEP, CEI, and BLAIS 🌎

📍Where: James Room (Barnard Hall)

📅⌚When: 5:15 - 7 pm on October 17, 2024

There will be light snacks and refreshments. 

This community event brings together the diverse expertise of our faculty, Barnard’s international student body, and the College’s history and archives surrounding reproductive justice and freedom to situate this landmark decision in a broader historical and global context. The 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling overturned nearly 50 years of legal protections established by Roe v. Wade (1973), ending the constitutional right to an abortion in the United States. Currently, each state decides whether abortion is legal and under what conditions, and the impact of this ruling is felt unevenly and unequally by people who are or may become pregnant.

To develop shared language for discussion, Barnard faculty will provide short presentations on the following concepts and terms:

• the framework of reproductive justice for analyzing unequal access to reproductive care (Elizabeth Ananat, Economics),
• the history of fetal viability and its reverberations into the present (Wendy Schor-Haim, FYW & English),
• the practice of self-managed abortions in the U.S. (Cecelia Lie-Spahn, FYW & English), and
• The impact of trigger laws and reimagining spaces and networks of reproductive care (Kadambari Baxi, Architecture).

Following these short presentations, attendees will be invited to articulate questions together and draw connections and comparisons between these themes and the legality of reproductive healthcare in other countries and political contexts. This event will also showcase two exhibits: Trigger Planting 2.0 and Abortion in Context, both in Milstein. Participants are encouraged to engage with the exhibitions in the weeks leading up to the event.  

This Teaching Resources Guide compiles a series of CEP-produced guides to support faculty as they plan their classes. These resources identify everything from how to use backward design to plan your class to strategies for engaging students on the upcoming presidential election, this page will be just as useful to instructors finishing the syllabus of a brand new class as it will be to those who are updating an existing one.

We are thrilled to introduce the Learning, Engagement, and Assessment Fellows (LEAFs)! These Barnard students are trained in student-faculty pedagogical partnership, assessment/feedback, and facilitation. The LEAF program is based on the model of pedagogical partnership, which brings students and faculty together in mutually-rewarding collaboration on faculty's teaching questions. You can learn more about the program by selecting the "Pedagogical Partnership" tab on our site and read more about our fellows by clicking the link below.