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Preservation LINK, Inc.
“educating our youth through media arts”
501c3 non-profit education agency
SUMMER 2013 PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS
The workshops will use photography to help students better understand the aesthetics of visual arts while engaging them in activities and discussions around self-image, culture, education, and social responsibility. Students will critique, produce, and share digital photographic works as expressions of their personal narrative and aspirations.
For more information email: pli@preservationlink.org
The Learning Line
Cultivating Self-Advocacy
Dr. Shaunqula (Shaun) A. Wilson
My experiences as a student, non-profit leader, and researcher have imparted both personal and observational accounts of self-advocacy. Historically, self-advocacy has been defined as “an individual's ability to effectively communicate, convey, negotiate, or assert his or her interests, desires, needs, and rights.” (VanReusen et al., 1994). According to West et.al. (1999), “students with strong self-advocacy skills are more likely to succeed in their pursuits as they will be able to request necessary accommodations for themselves. “
I strongly identify with the term self-advocacy as I continue to develop and evaluate the multitude of ways in which we, as an American society, approach formal education. I have witnessed how countless students make meaning about who they are and what they can achieve while navigating between school and non-school environments. I have come to understand and appreciate the fact that simply haranguing each other about what we should do “for” our children simply doesn’t cut it. Personally, I am more interested in what we should do “alongside” our children.
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Preservation LINK, Inc. provides original educational programs and curricula for youth.
Our Mission
To teach youth, through literacy, art, and technology education, how to explore, express, and experience the growth and empowerment gained from learning.
