Research Confronts Equity and Social Justice: Building the Emerging field of Collaborative, Community Engaged Education Research

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In an era of growing inequality and persistent racial disparities in education, as well as the increasing dominance of neoliberal policy agendas, education researchers face growing calls for their scholarship to directly confront equity and social justice in education. Researchers who conduct collaborative, community engaged scholarship (CCES) offer a powerful answer to this call by partnering with community and education activists to create knowledge in direct support of equity-oriented change agendas. In CCES, scholars and a variety of community change agents work together to identify research questions, design appropriate research, collect and analyze data, produce research reports, and design educational interventions and policy initiatives based upon research findings.

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Chair

• Patricia C. Gándara, University of California - Los Angeles

Presenters

• Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Timothy K. Eatman, Rutgers University-Newark

• Michelle Fine, City University of New York

• Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Van T Lac, The University of Texas - San Antonio

• Talia Sandwick, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Discussant

• Kevin G. Welner, University of Colorado Boulder