Critical Pedagogies Across Subject Areas: Comparative Perspectives From Urban Science, Elementary, and Out-of-School Educational Settings

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium examines the comparative differences and similarities between critical pedagogies across varied subject areas and contexts. The papers feature innovative practitioner research on critical literacy, digital media literacy, and youth popular culture. Presenters will discuss disjunctures/connections between: a critical chemistry curriculum at a social justice high school in Chicago; action research projects by fifth graders in Watts, Los Angeles; a sixth grade Family History Project with predominantly Mexican English Learners in California’s Central Valley; and Youth Radio’s production company in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Section 2: Education in Multicultural Contexts Within and Across Subject Areas

Chairs

• K. Wayne Yang, University of California - San Diego

• Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade, San Francisco State University

Papers

• Family Histories With English Learners in Urban Elementary Social Studies - Rosa M. Jimenez, Arizona State University

• From Praxis to All Power to the People: Youth Action Research in a Fifth-Grade Urban Classroom - Laurence A. Tan, WattsYouthCollective/122nd Street School/UCLA IDEA

• Chemistry With the Community - Alejandra Frausto, Rudy Lozano Leadership Academy; Daniel Morales-Doyle, Little Village Lawndale High School Campus

• Youth Media And Its Digital Afterlife - Elisabeth M. Soep, Youth Radio

Discussant

• Ernest D. Morrell, Teachers College, Columbia University