Division K Critical Dialogues. Re(imagining) Teaching and Teacher Education: Centering the Epistemologies of Communities Color

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Interrogating and responding to the harms of marginality and oppression is important and challenging work. There must also be spaces where we can (re)imagine the possibilities for a just world. This panel brings together scholar-activists who engage in teaching and teacher education centering the rich histories, cultures, languages, and epistemologies of communities of Color. The panelists will engage in a dialogue regarding approaches to reclaiming and remembering Indigenous, Black and people of Color knowledge systems in teaching and teacher education through models of community organizing, teacher development, curriculum, pedagogy, and praxis.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education

Chairs

• Rita Kohli, University of California - Riverside

• Conra D. Gist, University of Houston

Speakers

• Anna Lees, Western Washington University

• Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Graduate Center, City University of New York

• Jamila Lyiscott, University of Massachusetts – Amherst

• La'akea K. Yoshida, Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture (INPEACE)

Discussants

• Conra D. Gist, University of Houston

• Rita Kohli, University of California - Riverside