Radical Teacher Fellowship Grant Call for Proposals 2024
Radical Teacher Magazine welcomes proposals for its Louis Kampf Memorial Fellowship. These grants will promote and amplify projects that center “radical pedagogy and/or other radical educational activity.” The grant was created to support the time that activist-scholar-teachers put into pedagogical/educational work. Applicants are encouraged to spend some time reading Radical Teacher to become familiar with our approaches to scholarship on socialist, anti-racist, and feminist educational theory and the practice of teaching.
This year’s fellowship supports the development of radical pedagogical aims and/or research into how such pedagogies impact students. Fellowship recipients receive a lump sum that can be used to offset their workload for a given semester or summer while they develop a course or conduct research that supports a radical education pedagogy and practice. Fellowships may also be used for other forms of research-related expenses such as archival research fees and travel costs other than equipment and/or software purchases.
- Recipients will get recognition in Radical Teacher Magazine as well as supportive funding for their project and recognition for their CV.
- Recipients are expected to complete final project reporting/submit a project sample for publication in the magazine and/or RT Webinar in May 2025.
Proposals should specify which of the two project categories their proposal falls into:
Project Category 1:Develop a new course with radical pedagogical aims: Fellowship recipients receive a lump sum that can be used to help offset their workload for a given semester or summer while they develop a course that supports a form of radical education pedagogy and practice.
Project Category 2. Conduct research on the impact of an existing course with radical aims: Addresses qualitative and/or quantitative research into whether/how the socialist, antiracist, and/or feminist learning goals and pedagogies of a course are impacting students.
Fellowship Allocation: Grants can be funded for up to $5000. Individual and group applications will both be considered. Previous fellowship recipients are ineligible for the following three cycles.
CFP Applications: Project proposals must consist of an abstract, narrative, timeline, and budget as follows:
- Abstract: Brief synopsis of the proposal. (100 words)
- Narrative & Timeline: (1000 words) A detailed explanation of the project and applicable components: purpose; methods and process.
In the narrative, please provide the following information:
- How does the project define and engage the term “radical?” How will the project accomplish its radical aims?
- How does the project define and engage pedagogy? How is this pedagogy radical?
- Explain institutional context and how it impacts your project’s methods and aims.
- Identify concrete outcomes (events, courses, curriculum, etc.)
- Principal Investigators: who is involved (individuals and/or group members).
- Project Plan.
- Project Timeline.
- Budget Justification: Itemize & explain financial request.
Applications are due on April 30, 2024 by 11:59 via Googleform. As part of filling out the Google Form, CFP Applications should be submitted as one complete pdf document with your name, the title of the proposal and your institutional affiliation in the heading.
Applicants will be notified via email by May 31, 2024.