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California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Created: June 29, 2004
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Latest Update: June 29, 2004
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu

Model for Academy/Community Learning and Interaction

We were attracted to your conference by your mix of participatns. Yours may be one of the few conferences in which we actually fit.

"The New Orleans RGC Conference is the only organization of its kind, which focuses on the intersection of those three terms, Race, Gender & Class. The Annual RGC Conference is providing a scholarly forum, which allow those working in the field to further their study though their interactions in these issues. The conference is bringing in activists and community members, thus providing an opportunity for much needed interactions across institutional boundaries. There is no other Conference in the world that addresses all three areas, their intersections, and their impacts on people lives, not only in this country but also throughout the world."

Title:

Naked Space: A Safe Forum for Merging the Academy and the Community

Topic Area:

Would fit in either education or politics, depending on how those sections are composed. Our emphasis is on actual practice of discourse on current event social and political issues shared between community and academy.

Presentation Format:

We expect to have a laptop available so that we can share with you our Internet teaching site. I expect to purchase a laptop that can operate wireless, but will have to be check back with you on that. Our model uses the Internet teaching site, which we can probably show effectively on CD if necessary. We could talk about the model in a paper presentation format, or actually offer a workshop with the materials we are using available for praxis. Depends on how you compose your sessions.

Another alternative is that we set up one of the Naked Space Gallery Exhibits as an actual site for community/academy dicourse on social and political issues. We do a gallery exhibit once each semester, and are presently on the program as an Internet Exhibit with the Cultural Analysis Summer Academy Conference in Amsterdam, July 2 though July 5, 2004. They were kind enough to include our Internet version of the Naked Space Exhibit of May 2004 on their program, even though we could not be in Amsterdam, so that others who are concerned with the integration of community and academy in real education will be able to reach us. Program Participants and Abstracts.

Names of authors, departments, affiliations:

Because this submission involves actual praxis, a regularly occuring gallery exhibit in real and virtual space, all five of the following would be collaborative authors, each with a different role in the community/academy discourse model.

Curator of Naked Space Exhibit, May 2004.:

• Michael Griffin, B.A.
  Gallery Exhibit, Spring 2004
  Hypertext Intern for Internet Exhibit
  Through Department of Political Science
  California State University, Dominguez Hillls
  1000 E. Victoria
  Carson, CA 90747
  Telephone: (310) 243-3431
  mevysen@sbcglobal.net

Faculty Adjuncts:

• Jeanne Curran - Corresponding Author
  Professor Emeritus
  Department of Sociology
  California State University, Dominguez Hillls
  1000 E. Victoria
  Carson, CA 90747
  Telephone: (310) 243-3431
  FAx: (323) 874-4982
  jeannecurran@habermas.org

• Susan Takata
  Professor and Chair
  Department of Criminal Justice
  Molinaro 362
  University of Wisconsin-Parkside
  Telephone: (262) 595-3416
  takata@uwp.edu

Community Adjunct:

• Patricia Acone, B.A.
  Department of Sociology
  California State University, Dominguez Hillls
  1000 E. Victoria
  Carson, CA 90747
  Telephone: (310) 243-3431
  patriciaacone@hotmail.com

Youth Adjunct:

• Elise Zevitz, High School
  Through Department of Criminal Justice
  Molinaro 362
  University of Wisconsin-Parkside
  Telephone: (262) 595-3416
  takata@uwp.edu

Abstract:

Presentation of a currently functioning model of a forum accessible to and used by both community and academic participants in discourse on social and political issues of immediate import. The forum is granted legitimacy through its link to the university through activist faculty and provides broad community linkage through open access to the model and its database on the Internet. The more focused community of students and their families, friends, local neighborhoods are drawn in through gallery exhibits each semester, during which there is an opportunity for face-to-face discourse. Concurrently with the real time exhibit, we upload a virtual exhibit to our website, Dear Habermas . (See the virtual exhibit of the May 2004 Naked Space Exhibit.)

The model draws on the social theory we have chosen to focus on: answerability , illocutionary understanding, governance discourse, Habermas' system of law, amongst many others. We provide brief summaries and discussions of the main concepts on the website. Then we rely on collaborative and transparent approaches to learn