{"id":12596,"date":"2020-10-14T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2020-11-02T13:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:44:43","slug":"faculty-spotlight-2-webinar-october-28th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2020\/10\/12596\/","title":{"rendered":"FACULTY SPOTLIGHT #1 WEBINAR OCTOBER 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Brown Center invites you to our Faculty Spotlight on\u00a0Wednesday,\u00a0 October\u00a021<sup>st<\/sup>\u202fat\u00a012:00 PM\u00a0on Blackboard Ultra. The spotlight series is\u202fa showcase of research, creative inquiry, and other scholarly engagement of the campus community. Stop by and learn about the research of our talented Stetson community!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blackboard Ultra Link: <s>\u00a0https:\/\/us.bbcollab.com\/guest\/3624121dca7c4eb7bb9c9c09b77c7e1d<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Torro-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Torro-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Torro-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Torro-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Torro-1.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Pamela Cappas-Toro &#8211; Assistant Professor of World Languages and Cultures (Spanish)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/artsci\/languages\/\">Department of World Languages and Cultures&nbsp;<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Spanish Co-Instruction in Prison: A Dialogue on Language, Identity,  and Pedagogy <\/strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of 2017, one of the co-founders and co-directors of the Community Education Project (CEP), Pamela Cappas-Toro, initiated the program\u2019s first course that was co-taught by incarcerated students, Antonio Rosa and Ken Smith. This two month-long Spanish language course met three times a week and was initially conceived as a multidirectional class based on observation, conversation, co-teaching, and co-lesson planning (Cherian, 2007). Nonetheless, we encountered many barriers\u2014both expected and unexpected\u2014that limited incarcerated students\u2019 ability to become teachers, researchers, and authors. This research interrogates how \u201cexplicit knowledge\u201d such as curriculum, content development, and sociolinguistic training in Spanish is created, shaped, and negotiated in a maximum-security prison. It addresses specific challenges of creating concerted pedagogical ecosystems between incarcerated and non- incarcerated instructors, highlighting the power of the prison to limit learning outcomes. We also show how academic organizations reinforced barriers preventing incarcerated co-instructors from being considered equal producers of knowledge. This investigation highlights the importance of collaboration while also questioning how academic gatekeeping limits the critical knowledges produced by incarcerated people. It documents the fraught complexities of collaboration, and suggests how we reconceptualize and research the process of creating participatory knowledge in these learning communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Pamela Cappas-Toro<\/strong><\/strong> earned a PhD in Spanish &amp; Latin American Literatures and Cultures from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she also taught and tutored at the Education Justice Project in Danville Correctional Center &#8211; a model college-in-prison program. At Stetson University, Dr. Cappas-Toro teaches Spanish language, Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures, Latinx studies, and she is one of the co-founders and co-directors of the Community Education Project -a higher education in prison initiative at Tomoka Correctional facility which provides liberal arts education to incarcerated men in FL. She is also the founder and the director of La Casa Cultural Latina &#8211; a cultural center that provides ESL courses for community members, extend educational opportunities into our community, serves as a satellite space for local non-profit organizations, and engages university students in community-based learning. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brown Center invites you to our Faculty Spotlight on\u00a0Wednesday,\u00a0 October\u00a021st\u202fat\u00a012:00 PM\u00a0on Blackboard Ultra. The spotlight series is\u202fa showcase of research, creative inquiry, and other scholarly engagement of the campus community. Stop by and learn about the research of our talented Stetson community!\u00a0 Blackboard Ultra Link: \u00a0https:\/\/us.bbcollab.com\/guest\/3624121dca7c4eb7bb9c9c09b77c7e1d Dr. Pamela Cappas-Toro &#8211; Assistant Professor of World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12781,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions\/12781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}