Researchers Meet Community Organizers: Can Public Scholarship Contribute to Struggles for Immigration Rights, Community Schools, and Public Institutions in Neoliberal Times?

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

How can researchers and scholars better meet the knowledge needs of education justice movements? In this session we will flip the script by asking community organizers working on topics such as immigration rights and public community schools to suggest to scholars how their work can better meet the needs of the education justice movements. The community organizer presentations will be followed with interactive facilitated discussions led by scholars, in which session attendees and organizers will discuss existing research and identify new public scholarship projects that could both meet the needs of the community organizers and advance education research. Discussion leaders and session chairs will synthesize the discussions and suggest next steps at the conclusion of the session.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Cosponsor

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Education Reform

Chairs

• Ben R. Kirshner, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Michelle Renée Valladares, University of Colorado - Boulder

Participants

• Ruth Maria López, Brown University

• Tina M. Trujillo, University of California - Berkeley

• Pauline Lipman, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Fahd Ahmed, DRUM Desis Rising Up & Moving

• Zakiyah Ansari, New York City Coalition for Educational Justice

• Dmitri Holtzman, Equal Education