United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship
Advice & Activism Project
Professor Jamison Crabtree, Pima Community College (Arizona)
Professor Ingrid Sabio-McLaughlin, Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland),
2021-2022
Introduction:
You are a part of a collegewide effort to increase access to education and empower students
through "open pedagogy." Open pedagogy is a "free access" educational practice that places you
- the student - at the center of your own learning process in a more engaging, collaborative
learning environment. The ultimate purpose of this effort is to achieve greater social justice in
our community in which the work can be freely shared with the broader community. This is a
renewable assignment that is designed to enable you to become an agent of change in your
community through the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). For this work, you will integrate the disciplines of Creative Writing/English, History,
and Women and Gender Studies to achieve SDG #5: Gender Equality. With a focus on Targets
5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere and 5.5: Ensure
women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of
decision-making in political, economic and public life, 5a Undertake reforms to give women
equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other
forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with
national laws.

Learning Objectives:
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Students will explain one’s personal assumptions about gender relations. Students will
also articulate inequities related to gender, particularly in the workplace.
Student will analyze the nature and effects of gender and how they intersect with other
social hierarchies in modern American society.
Students will articulate an enhanced understanding of activism.

Purpose/Rationale:
This assignment is designed to improve student's communication skills. This assignment will
expand student's social capital by allowing them to interact with community organizations.

Instructions:
This assignment is separated into two parts: Advice and Activism.
The advice section requires you to articulate a piece of advice related to inequities in the work
place that you wished you received prior to employment. You will post a three (3) minute video
on Flipgrid identifying the inequity and what you wish you knew before.
The second part of the assignment is the activism piece. Part of my teaching philosophy is that my
job is to help my students have both the information and means to make a difference in the world.
This semester, I want you to become actively engaged in activism. Your activism should be
related to a gender issue.
Possible topics can include: wage inequity, feminization of poverty, food apartheid, intimate
partner violence, sexual assault, human/sex trafficking, eating disorders, transgender rights,
female circumcision, gender and media images, global feminism etc.
It is important to recognize that activism is broadly defined and can include a wide range of
activities. You must volunteer for four (4) hours for an organization/group that addresses issues
related to a gender issue.

Format Requirements:
Flipgrid Advice video should be no longer than 3 minutes. Students must provide 4 hours of
virtual service for an organization working toward combatting gender inequity.

Advice & Activism Project is licensed by Professor Jamison Crabtree, Pima Community College
(Arizona) and Professor Ingrid Sabio-McLaughlin, Community College of Baltimore County
(Maryland) under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-ND)