46.086-11 - Dare the School Alone Work Toward Social Justice? (Re)Imagining Community-Based Spaces as Sites for Critical Education

• In Event: 46.086 - Roundtable Session 16

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The purpose for this symposium is to investigate the ways in which spatiality is connected to social justice, and how community-based spaces can serve as sites for critical education. This session seeks to examine how spaces beyond traditional academic settings create opportunities to (re)imagine and restore conceptions of “culture, language, and heritage,” as it relates to pluralistic identities, in ways that are not available in traditional academic settings. The presenters suggest that Community-Based Educational Spaces, Self-Created Literacy Spaces, Decolonial Home Spaces, and Label-Free Linguistic Spaces can help foster new instances of “culture, language, and identity” in the move toward restoration, sustenance, and justice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Maisha T. Winn, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Dare We Incorporate "Community" Into the Educational Experience? Community-Based Educational Spaces and Critical Learning - Juan Carlos Medina, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Dare She Produce Her Own Literacy Space? Black Feminine Expression and Self-Created Literacy Spaces - Fahima Ife, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Dare We Decolonize the Home? Pedagogies of the Home and Latina Mothers and Daughters - Kathy Villalon, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Dare We Release Imposed Linguistic Labels? Performativity in Label-Free Linguistic Spaces - Douglas Lloyd Adams, University of Wisconsin - Madison