Conversations 4 Citizenship

Episode 4: Conversation with Dr. Diana Rodriguez-Gomez

Episode Summary

In this episode of Conversations4Citizenship, Dr. Rowena Azada-Palacios (Ateneo de Manila University) and the rest of the team converse with Dr. Diana Rodríguez-Gómez (University of Wisconsin-Madison) about her research on places affected by violence and the impact this violence has on young people and on educational processes.

Episode Notes

The 4th episode of this season features Dr. Diana Rodríguez-Gómez (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Diana’s research has brought her to diverse educational settings across the world: from schools on the Ecuador-Colombia border, for example, to public high schools in New York City. Across these different settings, she has been interested in the effects that violence has on learners, on educational content, and on educational systems more broadly, and she has also sought to explore different ways that violence can be responded to in schools, such as through human rights education. In this wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Rodríguez-Gómez, she shares some of the insights that she has learned in these specific locations: both as an educational researcher as well as someone involved in educational practice and concrete educational interventions. She also shares moving reflections on how apparently diverse locations across the world are connected to each other in global dynamics of economics, politics, empire, and resistance.

We hope all listeners enjoy this episode, which is hosted by Rowena Azada-Palacios, Adam Peter Lang, Stella Cheong, and Kamille Beye. Please subscribe to the podcast through Apple, Google, Spotify or Amazon Music. You may also follow @c4c_ed on Twitter; we look forward to hearing your feedback and your stories. If you would like to explore the possibility of participating in our podcast,  do not hesitate to reach out through the online participation form or email us at info@conversations4citizenship.com.

Further information regarding Diana can be obtained by visiting her personal website: https://www.dianarodriguezgomez.com/

List of further readings

• Rodríguez-Gómez, D. (2022). Disputed futures: rural entrepreneurship and migration in postsecondary trajectories on the Ecuador–Colombia Border. Ethnography and Education, DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2022.2049333
• Rodríguez-Gómez, D. & Russell, S.G. (2021). Human Rights Violations through  Structural Violence: A Case Study of Human Rights Education in New York City. American  Educational Research Journal (AERJ), DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312211057307
• Rodríguez-Gómez, D. & Bermeo, M. (2020). Assembling the Educational Nexus to the War  on Drugs: A Systematic Review. Journal on Education in Emergencies, 6(1), pp. 18-56
• Rodríguez-Gómez, D. (2019). Bureaucratic Barriers to Universal Access to Education in  Ecuador. Journal on Education in Emergencies, 5(1), pp. 62-93
• Rodríguez-Gómez, D. (2018). Social Advocacy in Neoliberal Times: Non-Governmental  Organizations in Ecuador’s Refugee Landscape. In New Advocates for Education: Civil Society Organizations in Latin America, Cortina, R. & De la Fuente, C. (eds). New York City: Routledge, pp. 108-128
• Rodríguez-Gómez, D. (2017). When War Enters the Classroom: A case study on the  experiences of youth on the Ecuador–Colombia border. In (Re)Constructing Memory:  Education, Identity and Conflict. Williams, J. & Bellino, M. (eds.) The Netherlands: Sense Publishers, pp. 269-289
• Sayed, Y., Badroodien, A., Hanaya, A. & Rodríguez-Gómez, D. (2017). Social Cohesion,  Violence, and Education in South Africa. In Enlarging the Scope of Peace: African and World Regional Contributions, Seedat, M., Suffla, S., & Christie, D. (eds). Switzerland: SpringerInternational Publishing, pp. 239-254
• Rodríguez-Gómez, D., Foulds, K. & Sayed, Y. (2016). Textbooks and Peacebuilding in  Colombia and South Africa. Education as Change, 20(3), pp. 76-97
• Bartlett, L., Rodríguez-Gómez, D. & Oliveira, G. (2015). South-South Migration and  Education: Sociocultural Perspectives. Educação e Pesquisa, 41, Special Issue, pp. 1153- 1170
• Kanjee, A., Sayed, Y., & Rodríguez-Gómez, D. (2010). Curriculum planning and reform in sub-Saharan Africa. Southern African Review of Education, 16(1), pp. 83-96.