44.020 - Division B Fireside Chat: What Is the Face of Social Justice Activism in Curriculum Studies?

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

How do we position ourselves in the fight for social justice in schools, communities, and in the academy? Understanding curriculum studies as movement building, in what ways should we move social justice from theory to practice? What does that movement look like? Paulo Freire’s 1988 book, Pedagogy of Freedom, expressed themes of autonomy, self-declaration, investigation and critique of historical and contemporary socio- political curriculums, student/ teacher co-theorizing and curriculum development and self-liberation. It is important in any educative environment, Friere suggested, that students are the driver in their learning to create, maintain, and sustain this freedom. Knowing this, how do we create a space that does not silence, marginalize and oppress those we seek to struggle with.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Chairs

• Tiffany J. Williams, Miami University - Oxford

• Tiffany M Nyachae, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University

Participants

• Robert James Helfenbein, Loyola University Maryland

• Walter S. Gershon, Kent State University

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Nichole A. Guillory, Kennesaw State University

• Fran Huckaby, Texas Christian University

• Kirsten T. Edwards, University of Oklahoma

• Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver

• Eve Tuck, University of Toronto

• Nicholas Daniel Hartlep, Metropolitan State University

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University