Pedagogies of Community-Engaged Practice, a Community-Based Research Project
For over three years, SJE Chair Dr. Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, SJE PhD candidate Wendy Ng, and others have been part of the Pedagogies of Community-Engaged Practice (PeCEP), a group of community-engaged facilitators. The PeCEP is a community-based research project created to explore and share knowledge about facilitation practices that support community-engaged work across different sectors. As a group of community-engaged facilitators, we explored a shared question:
How do we do our work with care, equity, and accountability?
Supported by The Spencer Foundation, the project team looked at facilitation practices, asked hard questions, and learned from one another across sectors (i.e., arts, harm reduction, education, organizing). We held interviews, focus groups, and a retreat to reflect on facilitation practices in community-engaged work such as the values that shape our work, the strategies we lean on, and the tensions we navigate. This was more than research - it was an experiment in building trust, navigating conflict, and practicing the values we hold.
Want to know what we created together? Join us online on December 4th for "Rooted in Practice: Learning from Community-Engaged Facilitators” where we will launch our resources by community-engaged facilitators, for community-engaged facilitators! Network and build a community of practice committed to social justice.
Event:
Organized by: The Pedagogies of Community Engagement Collective
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Time: 5:30-7:30 pm EST
Location: Online using Zoom
Contact pecep.research@utoronto.ca to learn more.
