The Center for Immigrant and Refugee Community Leadership and Empowerment CIRCLE
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							Sally,Cole, Vachel, Shekar, and Michael with former staff Janna Shadduck
		On March 3-4, CIRCLE team presented a collective paper "Action Research and the Development of Cross-Cultural Models of Leadership" at the 21st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The paper was focused on collective inquiry, ethnography, critical pedagogy, and participatory action research as related to the model emerging from the experiences with immigrant and refugee youth in Western Massachusetts. Vachel Miller, discussant/moderator, provided an overview and philosophy of CIRCLE as well as summarized key points of the presentation. Click below for abstract of each paper: Collective Inquiry: A Model for Newcomer Leaders and Students to Build Community by Sally Habana-Hafner Critical Pedagogy at the Core of Collective Inquiry by Shekar Regmi Participatory Action Research in a Mentoring Project by Cole Genge Ethnographic Evaluation in Education by Michael Simsik