75.042-2 - Research for Social Justice: Multimodal Narratives of Struggles of Ethnic-Minority, Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee Students in China, Indonesia, and the United States

• In Event: 75.042 - MTCC Roundtable Session 34

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

International scholars illuminate five programs of research on multimodal narratives of struggles of ethnic minority, immigrant, migrant, and refugee students in China, Indonesia, and the United States to bring to light methodological challenges inherent in social justice inquiries that purposefully attend to and work against racialized, gendered, classed, and other intersected oppressions. These activist researchers allow their participants to name their predicaments, tell their stories, ask hard questions, and contest deficit narratives that further marginalize their existence. They demonstrate that contexts of rampant oppression necessitate social justice inquiries that trouble accepted notions of what counts as educational research and challenge traditional ways of engaging in, interpreting, and writing about research. Possibilities and responsibilities of social justice research are also discussed.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry and Transformations

Chair

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

Papers

• Research for Social Justice: Oral Histories of Chinese Immigrants' Experience of Language, Culture, Identity, and Power in the Southern United States - Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

• Expanding Oral History Research for Social Justice: Mobile Podcasting and Geotagging With Refugee Girls - Michelle S. Bae-Dimitriadis, Pennsylvania State University

• The Social Context of Schooling for Migrant Children in China - Min Yu, Wayne State University

• Teachers' Experiences in Meeting the Educational Needs and Challenges of Somali Refugee Students - Wangari Gichiru, Central Connecticut State University

• The Children in the Fisherman's Neighborhoods in the Indonesia Archipelago - Dinny Risri Aletheiani, Yale University

Discussants

• William C. Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Bic H. Ngo, University of Minnesota