A Vehicle for Praxis: Teachers Uplifting Student Voice Beyond the Classroom in #USvsHate

• In Event: Teacher Agency for Critical Consciousness

Abstract

This paper builds on a study of a national pilot of #USvsHate—a collective action project inviting “anti-hate” teaching and public messaging in schools. While prior participatory design research explores #USvsHate as an “onramp” for teachers new to such work, here we spotlight stories of teachers already engaged in “anti-hate” teaching, who found #USvsHate to be a useful vehicle for next-step action. Data tapping voices of teacher and student participants highlight how current events already drove teachers’ concerns about inclusivity. Yet, while educators leveraged agency to build students’ critical consciousness in the classroom, they had not taken “next steps” of elevating student voice beyond it. We explore teachers’ efforts to expand the reflection and action loop (praxis) to uplift student voice.

Authors

• Mariko Yoshisato Cavey, Johns Hopkins University

• Dolores de Los Angeles Lopez, University of California - San Diego

• Erika Rae Reece, University of California - San Diego

• Reed Kendall, University of California - San Diego

• Mica Pollock, University of California - San Diego

• Benjamin C Kennedy, University of California - San Diego