Centering Communities in Ed Reform

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

During this dialogue, scholar/activists and community organizers who utilize decolonizing and participatory methodologies to work with historically marginalized communities, grapple with ways to generate authentic community involvement in educational reform efforts. Participants focus on the beliefs and practices of academics who partner with families, communities, and youth to support community schools and engage educational reform. They consider the tensions involved in coalition building across differences, speaking truth to power, and working from the “inside” to disrupt systems that harm local communities.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Shelley Zion, Rowan University

Papers

• Black Female Academics, Community Engagement, and the Politics of Caring - Uvanney Maylor, University of Bedfordshire

• Negotiating Possibility and Paradox Within Community-Engaged Research - Bianca Jontae Baldridge, Harvard University

• The Politics of Interruption - David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Liberatory Public Education: A Framework for Centering Community and Democracy in Public Education - Antwan Jefferson, University of Colorado - Denver

• Organizing People to Impact Institutions - Fred Pinguel, Philadelphia Student Union

Discussant

• Lisa Robinson, University of Nottingham