Division L Fireside Chat. The Politics and Power of Research in Educational Movements: Exploring Collaborations for Educational Justice

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In the context of the 2020 Presidential Election and the national wave of teacher activism, debates on how to respond to educational inequity remains highly contested. Graduate students studying the intersections of politics, education policy, and racial and economic inequity understand that policy responses rooted in justice are not matters of quality research, but political power. Using a place-based grounding of the Bay Area, this session brings together researchers and organizers working directly in and whose work illuminates the national connections of education organizing in Oakland and San Francisco. Through multi-media art and a panel, this professional development session will support graduate students who aspire for their research in politics and educational policy to be in conversation with educational movements.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Cosponsor

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics

Chair

• Rachel Whitney Boggs, University of Texas - Austin

Discussant

• Rachel Williams, University of California - Berkeley

Moderator

• René Espinoza Kissell, University of Colorado - Boulder

Panelists

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Emily Ozer, University of California - Berkeley

• Jeremiah Jeffries, Teacher, SFUSD

• Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Frances Free Ramos, University of California - Berkeley