Reenvisioning Curriculum and Pedagogy Through Understanding the Politics of Citizenship and Belonging

• In Event: 32.058 - Democratic Citizenship in Education SIG Paper Discussion (Roundtable) Session 1

Abstract

Central to our interest in problematizing traditional conceptualizations of students’ senses of citizenship and belonging is a focus on emphasizing the importance of furthering educational research aimed at challenging longstanding inequities. Therefore, our goal in this work is to expand such framework of understanding and call for further research to explore the need for “robust accounts of the role that schools play in shaping the parameters of social membership and political participation” (Abu El-Haj & Bonet, 2011). In framing our discussion this way, we are seeking to disrupt inequalities by advocating for a paradigm shift in educational research as it pertains to the school curriculum and pedagogy, school-community partnerships, and critically conscious teachers of children and youth from immigrant communities.

Authors

• Min Yu, Wayne State University

• Christopher B. Crowley, Wayne State University

• Christina P. Denicolo, Wayne State University

• Susan L. Gabel, Wayne State University