Community Policing, Educational Institutions, and Third-Order Change: The Promise of Interinstitutional Partnerships

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Over the last eighteen months, a rash of high profile incidents involving police brutality in several U.S. cities have strained already tenuous relationships between police and the communities they serve. As a response, this session presents empirical and theoretical studies of inter-institutional partnerships between law enforcement, educational institutions, and multiple publics that serve as models of collaboration committed to processes of social inquiry and democratic principles of inclusion. These partnerships respond to a significant gap in defining what “community policing” is, and what it should be, in an increasingly pluralistic (and punitive) society. Most significantly, we place the above in a historical context that recognizes the current sociopolitical moment as one that demands liberation of our collective moral imagination.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 8: Social Policy and Education

Chair

• Rebecca Colina Neri, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Next-Generation Urban Policing: A Pan-Institution Educational Commitment - Susan Searls Giroux, McMaster University

• Third-Order Changes in Policing Through Critical Pedagogy: Implications From a Participatory Action Research Study - Rebecca Colina Neri, University of California - Los Angeles; Anthony A Berryman, University of California - Los Angeles

• Schools, Police, and Student Voice: Creating Democratic Educative Spaces Through Interinstitutional Partnerships - Bianca Nayeli Haro, University of California - Los Angeles; Rebecca Colina Neri, University of California - Los Angeles

Discussant

• Thomas M. Philip, University of California - Los Angeles