34.033 - "A People's Scholarship": Portraiture and Possibilities for Liberatory Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session involves scholars whose work applies Portraiture to better understand the experiences of students and teachers of color. We present research that: 1) Investigates collective healing and self-identity with young Black and Brown girls; 2) Examines Ethnic Studies portraits of Filipina/o American K-12 teachers; 3) Examines the utility of self-portraits in an elementary classroom and 4) Considers the connections across Chicana Feminist Theories alongside Portraiture for educational research. We share the possibilities of Portraiture, Women of Color Feminisms, Ethnic Studies and Decolonial Frameworks to advance our understandings of teaching and learning through research that moves us toward action. To this end we offer ways educators and researchers can utilize developments with Portraiture to better serve marginalized students and communities.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Micro-analyses of the social contexts of teaching and learning

Chair

• Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Blended Portraiture: Nurturing Pedagogies of Self-Recovery With Young Women of Color - Stephanie Cariaga, University of California, Los Angeles

• Toward an Ethnic Studies Portraiture - Edward Ryan Curammeng, California State University - Dominguez Hills

• The Art of Selfies: Self-Portraits in an Urban Elementary Classroom - Carolina Valdez, California State University - Fullerton

• The Muxerista Portraitist: Engaging Portraiture and Chicana Feminist Theories in Qualitative Research - Alma Itzé Flores, Loyola Marymount University

Discussant

• Adrienne D. Dixson, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign