18.039 - Critically Engaged Educational Research: Leveraging Creative and Collaborative Pedagogies for Transformative Change

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium presents four studies that engaged in collaborative meaning-making with students, teachers, and families by leveraging creative methods: poetry, identity texts, testimonios, and family literacy projects. We frame our collective research as ‘critically engaged’ to highlight the potential for this scholarship to (1) democratize knowledge, (2) increase our understanding of the lived experiences of minoritized children and youth, and (3) promote classroom pedagogies that open up spaces for critical inquiry. Through our paper presentations and in the discussion that follows, we will engage in dialogue around the need for critically engaged educational scholarship and will consider the potential of different “pedagog[ies] of hope” (Freire, 1992) to support and empower culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chair

• Laura Hamman-Ortiz, University of Colorado - Boulder

Papers

• Envisioning a Critical Translanguaging Space: Collaborative Bilingual Identity Texts as Research and Pedagogy - Laura Hamman-Ortiz, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Testimonios as Pedagogical Tool in the Two-Way Bilingual Education Classroom - Dan Heiman, University of North Texas; Michelle Yanes, University of Toronto

• Written Testimonios: "Dude, What Was Up With the Poem? It's Messed Up!" - Paty Abril-Gonzalez, University of Texas at Austin

• Latinx Families' Experiences and Perceptions of Collaborative Project-Based Learning in Their Children's Bilingual Classroom - Adriana Alvarez, University of Colorado - Denver

Discussant

• Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon, Arizona State University