64.020 - Of, by, and for the People: Educational Work With Past and Present Black Communities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session will present examples of community-engaged scholarship connected to youth, schools, and education. A focus on Black communities is at the core of each presenter’s work, but their work engages with other communities of color as well. The group of presenters look to the past and the present in order to explore themes of education, race, and community activism; schools as community pillars; and support services for survivors of violence. The presenters have generally encountered a relative lack of scholarship on and public knowledge about the various ways in which “educational workers” from communities of color have engaged in work intended to benefit said communities.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars of Color in Education

Chair

• Ronald E. Chennault, DePaul University

Papers

• African American Women Educators' Legacy of Community Engagement: An Analysis of Septima Poinsette Clark - Karen Ann Johnson, University of Utah

• Conceptualizing Communally Bonded Schooling: An Imperative for Researching Black Community Life and Improving African American Schooling - Jerome E. Morris, University of Missouri-St. Louis

• Using Survivors' Perspectives to Support Reengagement With School After Experiencing Traumatic Loss - Ronald E. Chennault, DePaul University; JaShawn Hill, Chicago Survivors