Antonia Darder, a leading international critical pedagogy and community action exponent, is the speaker at the first session of this year’s Work in Progress seminar series.

Darder will present a paper entitled Critical Leadership and Community Empowerment – A Freirean Approach, in which she will examine Freire’s contribution to the historical struggle of disenfranchised populations in the US. From this standpoint, she will identify a set of indispensable qualities of leadership for community empowerment that focus on ethics of both political and personal practice.

The session takes place tomorrow at 6pm in Room D, Faculty for the Built Environment, Msida campus.

Researching inclusion

Researching inclusion is the theme of a public lecture to be given by Shirley Steinberg from the University of Calgary, Canada, and Mark Vicars, from Victoria University, Australia, tomorrow from 5.30 to 7pm at Gateway Building, Hall B, Msidacampus.

The speakers will explore ways in which research could be a productive tool to understand and empower minority groups.

The lecture is organised by the Department of Youth and Community Studies of the University’s Faculty for Social Wellbeing.

For further information contact Michael Debattista on 2340 3192 or e-mail michael.debattista@um.edu.mt.