CCEUC Praxis Conference: Where Research Meets Practice!
- Friday, June 4, 2021, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
NOUN PRAXIS \ˈPRAK-SƏS\ - 1: THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF A THEORY
How can we use research/theory to improve our communities? How can we invite researchers to study problems we see in our communities? Join us for an exploration between these connections. Admission is free as a service of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, made possible by funding from a Cornell Innovation grant. Register here.
The conference format includes our keynote about praxis in peace-building,15 minute team presentations on the topic below, and a chosen breakout room to further immerse in one of these topics.
Topic #1: What is implicit bias, and does having it make me a bad person?: Learn more about this research-based training
Laura Eppinger (4-H Youth Development), Serafina Matos-Smith (School of Environmental and Biological Sciences), Lisa Sanon-Jules (Rutgers Honors College), and Marissa Staffen (4-H Youth Development)
Topic #2: Choose your culvert wisely: a new geomorphic approach to culvert and bridge assessment to reduce flooding
Tim Koch, Stream Educator, Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program and Roy Schiff, SLR Consulting
Topic #3: Suffolk Speaks Youth Self-Expression Toolkit: Research-based ways to encourage youth voice and self-expression
Cornell Program for Research on Youth Development and Engagement Senior Cohort and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County
Topic #4: Evaluating and improving best practices to support caregivers and children amidst the opioid epidemic
Laura Tach (Cornell – PAM), Anna Steinkraus (CCE-Tompkins), Juliana Garcia (CCE-Tompkins), Elizabeth Day (Cornell – BCTR)
Topic #5: The Rural Storytelling Project: Using storytelling theory to encourage self-expression and community engagement
Cornell Cooperative Extension Rural Storytelling Interns Madison Albano, Seth Bollinger, and Wendy Lau
Fee
Free
Register
https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlc-CpqD8pH9IuUxrpXf43O0edkAA_hETc
Contact
Melanie Forstrom
Executive Director
maf357@cornell.edu
845-340-3990 ext. 320
Location
This event is online
Last updated May 25, 2021
Keynote Speaker
Charles Davidson, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Political Leadership Academy at the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University and is the founder of Innovations in Peacebuilding, an organization that promotes creative approaches to peacebuilding praxis in war-torn communities and in the United States. While most recently he has worked on the economic reintegration of former child soldiers in the D.R. Congo, he has also worked and conducted research in Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda, Burundi, Colombia, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, and across Europe. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Abby.