75.026 - Beyond Empowerment: Accompaniment and Sociolinguistic Justice Through Youth Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium offers a reconceptualization of the goal of social and sociolinguistic justice as a process of accompaniment rather than empowerment. Accompaniment is an ongoing, negotiated process in which all participants contribute different forms of expertise and understanding from which they benefit in different ways. The panelists explore this reconceptualization by examining various facets of a particular youth program that works toward sociolinguistic justice through the study of the intersections across language, culture, race, and power. School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society (SKILLS) combines research, training, academic preparation, and activism by connecting teams of graduate student teaching fellows and undergraduate mentors with high school students, teachers, and staff in schools to work against social, linguistic, and educational inequities.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Local Contexts of Teaching and Learning

Chair

• Doroles Ines Casillas, University of California - Santa Barbara

Papers

• Accompaniment, Sociolinguistic Justice, and Youth Agency - Mary Bucholtz, University of California - Santa Barbara; Jin-Sook Lee, University of California - Santa Barbara; Doroles Ines Casillas, University of California - Santa Barbara

• From Isolation to Collaboration: The Connection Between Language Beliefs and Teaching Philosophies - Elizabeth Anne Mainz, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Empathy and Affect in Latina/o Peer Discussions of Language Brokering - Audrey Noelle Lopez, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Bringing Academic Concepts to Life: Latina/o Students' Experiences Within and Between "Communities of Practice" - Maria Jose Aragon, University of California - Santa Barbara

• "It's Just Funny": Laughing About Race and Racism in a Cross-Racial Classroom - Meghan Corella Morales, University of California - Santa Barbara