28.011 - Moving Beyond a Single Story/Truth: Counterhegemonic Ways of Being, Knowing, and Remembering and Their Implications for Educational Research

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Moving beyond a single story or truth requires recognizing ways of being, knowing, and remembering, that is counter to the dominant narrative. Critical perspectives from indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, dis/ability, and postcolonial communities have not only contested dominant knowledge, which has informed educational policies, programs, and practices and turned them as normalized and common sense. They also offer distinct ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies that are situated within embodied and culturally relevant ways and that aim to advance and sustain the wellbeing of marginalized communities. These perspectives, therefore, counter what has become the dominant story or truth, and provide alternatives that present different realities, knowledges, and approaches.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University

Participants

• Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Arizona State University

• George J. Dei, OISE/University of Toronto

• Cynthia B. Dillard, University of Georgia

• Nirmala Erevelles, The University of Alabama

• Luis Urrieta, The University of Texas at Austin