Research and Innovation With Children and Families in Urban Schools and Communities

Session Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Educational research in urban settings constitutes a particularly important and complex body of work that includes research questions, methodological approaches, and conceptual frameworks that capture the critical issues facing these communities. Such research contributes to our understanding of how to bring about change, in educational outcomes and classroom practices, for both the students who are affected and the structures and systems of which they are a part. Panelists in the session will draw upon ongoing research in Philadelphia schools and communities to highlight the range of issues being addressed, approaches and conceptual frameworks being used, and possibilities that have emerged to support and improve learning, teaching, and schooling

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Luis C. Moll, The University of Arizona

Participants

• John Fantuzzo, University of Pennsylvania

• James Earl Davis, Temple University

• Kathleen M. Shaw, Research for Action

Discussant

• Vivian L. Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania