The Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture (2020)

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This presentation will discuss innovative conceptual and practical approaches to study community colleges to transform them into equitable spaces. Existing myths, models, and assumptions about community colleges and all its actors need to be challenged and debunked. In particular, this session will provide concrete examples of how to re-imagine the use funds of knowledge from a systems’ perspective to challenge deficit notions of what community colleges are, who they serve, and what role they play in redressing inequities in higher education

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Chair

• Vanessa Siddle Walker, Emory University

Papers

• Research as Resistencia: Studying Community Colleges as Sites of Hope, Possibilities, and Transformation Through a Systems/Funds of Knowledge Approach - Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, University of California - Los Angeles