Reclaiming Our Own Spaces: Youth and Educators Building Emancipatory Relationships, Identity Constructions, and Resistance

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 9

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

In this symposium, critical educator-researchers of color will explore how teachers and students of color create counter-spaces to foster their well-being and enact their imaginings of education. The presentations will address: 1) how learning with youth can build a paradigm and practice for transformative youth organizing; 2) how educators and youth of color engaging in outdoor education can meet their holistic needs; 3) how educators create spaces where male students can interrogate masculinities and heteronormativity through literacy practices; and 4) how high school teachers create spaces for organizing and building community. Following the presentations, a leading scholar in teacher education will facilitate a dialogue on the possibilities of fostering counter spaces particularly in our current turbulent political and historical moment.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• Beyond Self-Discovery: Outdoor Education as a Means for Relationship-Building Across Communities - Sara Jasmin Diaz-Montejano, University of California - Los Angeles

• A Praxis of Love: Learning With Students to Co-Create Liberatory Community Possibilities - Emily Bautista, Independent Scholar

• Disrupting Schooling's Scripts of Masculinity: Latino Males Navigating Heteronormativity Through Critical Literacies - JC Lugo, University of California - Los Angeles

• Cultivating Hope and Possibility in Counter-Spaces: Reflections From the Politics and Pedagogy Collective - Mariana E. Ramirez; Aileen Gendrano Adao, Roosevelt High School Math, Science, and Technology Magnet

Discussant

• Tara J. Yosso, University of California - Riverside