Gentrification
Welcome, and thank you for visiting our webpage! We have put this website together to examine through art and culture how gentrification is effecting the Humboldt Park neighborhood, and to teach high school students how gentrification will effect them directly. The students will use art and knowledge of the culture in the Humboldt Park neighborhood to analyze and discuss how gentrification impacts their day to day lives. The essential questions our curriculum sets out to answer are:
1. What are the social, political, and economic incentives that drive gentrification?
2. How has gentrification empirically taken place?
3. How can students and families respond effectively to those real and potential effects?
4. What are the benefits and pitfalls of gentrification?
The lesson plans and curriculum map are culturally relevant to the students in order for them to gain a better understanding and relate gentrification to their own experiences through art and culture point of view. This unit can be applied to any neighborhood that is going through or has been effected by gentrification.
PLEASE NOTE: NEIU students completed this curriculum project as a requirement for Dr. Isaura Pulido’s course, "Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Public Education 305/405," and in conjunction with the Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce. All contents on this website were created solely by us, NEIU students, who were challenged to embrace local liberatory curriculum development from our own disciplines of focus. The curricular frameworks (maps, lesson plan, guides, etc.) represented here are from CGCT, yet the content reflects our own small group work and perspectives. It does not represent a CGCT curriculum and is not classroom-tested. We do hope this site assists you in your inquiries into grassroots curriculum development.
Please see www.grassrootscurriculum.org for more information on the group we collaborated with.
Thank you.
1. What are the social, political, and economic incentives that drive gentrification?
2. How has gentrification empirically taken place?
3. How can students and families respond effectively to those real and potential effects?
4. What are the benefits and pitfalls of gentrification?
The lesson plans and curriculum map are culturally relevant to the students in order for them to gain a better understanding and relate gentrification to their own experiences through art and culture point of view. This unit can be applied to any neighborhood that is going through or has been effected by gentrification.
PLEASE NOTE: NEIU students completed this curriculum project as a requirement for Dr. Isaura Pulido’s course, "Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Public Education 305/405," and in conjunction with the Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce. All contents on this website were created solely by us, NEIU students, who were challenged to embrace local liberatory curriculum development from our own disciplines of focus. The curricular frameworks (maps, lesson plan, guides, etc.) represented here are from CGCT, yet the content reflects our own small group work and perspectives. It does not represent a CGCT curriculum and is not classroom-tested. We do hope this site assists you in your inquiries into grassroots curriculum development.
Please see www.grassrootscurriculum.org for more information on the group we collaborated with.
Thank you.