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Accepting Our Responsibilities as Educators, Scholars, and Innovators: Reclaiming Educational Equity Efforts in a Color-Evasive World

Mon, April 12, 9:30 to 11:00am EDT (9:30 to 11:00am EDT), Division K, Division K - Section 2 Paper and Symposium Sessions

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Abstract

This symposium focuses on educational innovations and how they can be weaponized against the communities they aim to serve. Each paper focuses on the following: a critical examination of the innovation, an examination of “what went wrong” in implementation, and then extended consideration of how the intervention can be “taken back” – what steps policymakers and designers, teachers and administrators must take in order to use the innovation in ways that expand on educational equity and that embody the principle of accepting responsibility. Our argument is that even when innovations are designed to redress inequality or expand access to educational opportunities, that systemic racism and inequality push at the innovation, distorting its aims and weaponizing its effects.

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