Early-Career Scholar Series Presenter: Dr. Chris Jadallah and Scholar Facilitator Dr. Teresa L. McCarty

The UCLA Department of Education Early-Career Scholar Series invites Department faculty, staff, and students to come together to engage with early-career scholars and their research, and build community over a Department lunch at noon following the session. At each session, an early-career scholar will either present their research or workshop a paper or study in progress facilitated by an advanced-career scholar.

This monthly event strives to foster community and connection within our Department, come together to learn more about our early-career scholars, and support their work. Coffee and refreshments will be served.

In this session, Dr. Jadallah will present a recently completed study with educators of color mapping the sociopolitical commitments that guide their pedagogies in farms, gardens, and other land-based settings (Jadallah, 2024). He will also share plans for an upcoming study extending this work in partnership with young people in the San Fernando Valley using oral history approaches to document their own families’ connections to and relationships with land. He welcomes comments, questions, and feedback.

Dr. Jadallah is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Justice in the Department of Education at UCLA, where he co-designs, implements, and studies learning environments where people come together to learn in, with, and from the natural world. Across his projects, he endeavors to foreground the knowledge of non-dominant communities as an asset for both learning and socio-ecological changemaking, operating from the premise that these communities’ everyday practices provide fertile ground from which to anchor the work of building more just and sustainable futures.

Upcoming Series Dates:

• January 17, 2025
• February 14, 2025
• March 14, 2025
• April 11, 2025
• May 9, 2025
• June 6, 2025