School Partnerships for Racial Equity: Case Studies of Engaged Scholarship in Educational Studies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As public education faces unprecedented challenges related to school budget cuts, we have witnessed a rise in partnerships between schools and universities serving to fill these gaps. These partnerships, falling under the umbrella of engaged scholarship, have also evolved. As the state relinquishes its responsibilities, and as scholars advocate for more equal relations, education researchers face new questions about their work in schools. This panel describes one education department’s attempt to grapple with partnership models in the current era of neoliberal school “reform.” It offers insights into questions of power, positionality, and representation in university-school partnerships; the recursive nature of engaged scholarship; and how scholars can move toward more just research relationships through both individual and collective effort.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Studies of diversity and variation within social contexts of education

Chair

• Lisa Smulyan, Swarthmore College

Papers

• Faculty-Teacher Partnerships: Reflections on Integrating Research, Teaching, and Work in Schools - Elaine Cristina Allard, Swarthmore College

• Engaged Scholarship at a Public High School: A Partnership for Youth Development and Social Change - Joseph D. Nelson, Swarthmore College; Brandon Miller, University of Pennsylvania; Arto Woodley; Sonya Chen, Swarthmore College

• Agency or Agenda? Exploring Engaged Scholarship and Racial Justice Activism in Three Elementary School Classrooms - Jennifer Bradley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

• Solidarity Service-Learning: Educator-Scholar Activism in the Context of Racial Neoliberal Higher Education - Edwin Mayorga, Swarthmore College

• I Said, They Said: The Politics of Representation in Engaged Scholarship - Roseann Liu, Swarthmore College

Discussant

• Maria Selenia Rivera Maulucci, Barnard College