Teaching Homelessness: Community College Faculty's Approaches to Housing Insecurity as a Curricular Topic

Community college students in the U.S. experience housing insecurity at higher rates than students in four-year colleges. At the same time, homelessness is also a common topic in courses in sociology and other disciplines. This webinar introduces research exploring the pedagogic approaches community college faculty use to teach homelessness in settings where students may be struggling with housing and invites participants to build on these findings to imagine more inclusive, justice-oriented, and supportive pedagogy.

By the end of this workshop, participants know or be able to:

• Identify at least three approaches to teaching homelessness that support students and validate their experiences.
• Explain why using service-learning activities may be a problematic approach to teaching about homelessness.
• Co-create an inclusive classroom activity that recognizes homelessness and housing insecurity are social justice issues and privileges students’ experiences and understandings.

Learners will have the option to earn a certificate of attendance or a certificate with CEUs upon completion of the webinar. To earn a certificate with CEUs, the learner must successfully pass the learning assessment with a score of 80% or higher. All learners must complete the webinar evaluation to earn credentials. 

The duration of this webinar is one hour, which is equal to 0.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). 

All webinar participants can obtain, at no additional cost:

• A digital badge and certificate that provide a web-enabled, verifiable documentation of your professional learning experience.
• CEUs, which are awarded by passing the post-webinar learning assessment with a score of 80% or better.