Flex Workshop: Understanding Refugee Knowledge and Epistemology
Date and Time
Thursday, August 20, 2026
3:30 to 4:45 pm
Location
This is an online event.
Contact
CRC Institutional Effectiveness
CRC-IE@crc.losrios.edu
Website
Description
This professional learning session invites educators to deepen their understanding of refugee knowledge as a meaningful and lived way of knowing. Grounded in oral storytelling and community-based practices, this session explores how story, memory, and sound function as systems of learning, identity, and connection.
Building from this, we consider how these same relational and experiential ways of knowing shape how students learn. Drawing on ideas from culturally responsive teaching and the brain alongside a critical refugee studies lens, we will reflect on how relationships, emotion, and lived experiences of displacement influence student learning and how these experiences show up in classrooms.
Presenters
- Caroline Thao
- Bao Vaaj Nchaiv Txab
Focus
Teaching Support
ADA Accessibility
For ADA accessibility accommodations, please contact Claudia Hoffman at hoffmac@crc.losrios.edu. Contact Claudia for disability accommodations only. For general inquiries, please contact either the facilitators of the event or CRC-prodev@crc.losrios.edu.