Shifting Scales in Relation: Tracing a Long-Standing Decolonial Feminist Politic of Resistance

• In Event: 68.061 - Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: 68.061-13 - Reform, Resistance, Responses, and Responsibilities in Curriculum Studies

Abstract

This is a study of a university, district and community collaboration (called “Adelante”), where members worked together for eight years to resist deficit discourses, imagine community and student success and mobilize community members and district personnel to make the schools and community more responsive to the needs of the most disadvantaged students. This paper explores how the forms of resistance that emerged in Adelante were creative responses to the colonial contexts and in relation with local legacies of resistance. These frameworks and practices of resistance articulated a feminist politic that reveal some of the shortcomings of the epistemological and ontological moorings that secure notions of “successful” school reform and social change.

Author

• Linnea Kristina Beckett, University of California - Santa Cruz