46.077 - Pushing Beyond the Project: (Re)Defining Justice Through Community Engagement

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session will focus on three different, yet interrelated research projects that investigate the transformative potential of service-learning engagements among K-12 teachers, students, and community partners across urban and rural contexts. Collectively, the panelists ask how these engagements--in K-12 classrooms and pre-service teacher education programs--might inspire new, hybrid definitions of justice rooted in the diverse perspectives of teachers, students, and community partners, as well as the texts of which they make use (i.e., the word and the world--texts and communities). They also explore how working in the midst of differences around these issues--or as Hayes and Cuban (1997) proposed, within a border pedagogy--is an ongoing process given the complex nexus in which power, privilege, and injustice operate.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Service-Learning & Experiential Education

Chair

• Emily Annette Nemeth, Denison University

Papers

• Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Teacher Education Through Service-Learning/Social Justice - Christian Winterbottom, University of North Florida

• "You Know Actionist, Rebelist": Tensions and Politics of Youth Naming Practices in Social Justice Work - Tamara T. Butler, Michigan State University

• "What's Happening in the Story": Creating Intertextual Tensions for Critical Consciousness - Emily Annette Nemeth, Denison University

Discussant

• Valerie Kinloch, The Ohio State University