"Bout That Action": Community-Engaged Research and the Radical Imagination in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The session will convene around the theme of “Community-Engaged Research and the Radical Imagination in Education.” Each participant will present papers examining how they incorporated a radical imagination into or became radicalized through community-engaged research, methods, data collection, and/or sharing findings. The goal is to understand how our different community-engaged studies both help to critique power in spaces/systems of education and at the same time push us to do a radical re-imagining of research, education, and the human condition. More importantly, presenters will reflect on how their community-engaged research approach connects to the action or praxis of social change.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Reform

Chair

• Nicole Nguyen, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• Race Radical Praxis: Community-Engaged Research to Move Toward Freedom - Edwin Mayorga, Swarthmore College

• Using Community Traditions as Research Methods - Jalil M. Bishop, Villanova University

• The Ferguson Effect: The Spread of Black Consciousness at Missouri Campuses - Amalia Z. Dache, University of Pennsylvania

• When This School Looks Like a Castle: Young Children Theorize Racial Justice - Jennifer Bradley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

• Love, Labor, and Reclamation Through Critical Research - Alejandro E. Carrión, Northwestern University

Discussant

• Brian Lozenski, Macalester College