Humanizing Praxis: Enacting Restorative, Transformative, and Healing Pedagogies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

AERA’s theme, The Power and Possibilities for the Public Good When Researchers and Organizational Stakeholders Collaborate, calls on educational researchers to actively engage with organizational stakeholders to create possibilities of connectivity, collaboration, and problem solving. This symposium, through an explicit focus on structural and interpersonal harm and the possibilities of collective and personal healing, does that by bringing together a diverse group of researcher-practitioners from the Los Angeles, California area. The geographic context is significant as California has allocated funding for training educators in Restorative Justice to address historic inequities in marginalized communities, with Los Angeles Unified School District developing a program. Our research points to new directions in the training of educators and the importance of maintaining such programs.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Edward R. Curammeng, California State University - Dominguez Hills

Papers

• Toward Pedagogies of Wholeness: Centering Intimacy, Interdependence, and Healing in an English Classroom - Stephanie Cariaga, California State University - Dominguez Hills

• Practice Courage: Restorative Justice as Humanizing Praxis - Michelle Ferrer, San Diego Unified School District

• Restorative Justice and the Possibilities of Radical Healing - Elexia Reyes McGovern, California State University - Dominguez Hills; JC Lugo, University of California - Los Angeles

• Teacher Resilience Through Grief: Regaining Agency After Student Deaths - Leora Wolf-Prusan, Center for Applied Research Solutions

Discussant

• Candice Valenzuela, San Francisco State University