Interdisciplinary Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Centering African American Archives, Educators, Students, and Technology

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This session brings together educators, psychologists, historians, and curriculum researchers to intervene in meaningful solutions that impact the learning, matriculation, and future of African American students. Principal goals include 1) historicizing the socio-cultural impact of American educational foundations 2) interrogating the influence of African American educators who shaped holistic, innovative, and cross-cultural educational agendas, 3) examining the power of culturally relevant pedagogy to minimize the digital divide among African American students, families, and schools, 4) and challenging legacies of trauma induced oppression, omission, and mis-representation in educational institutions. Critical solutions and interventions are proposed which benefit all students and teachers while strengthening U.S. national and global understanding of culturally relevant pedagogical and critical race histories.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 04: The Socio-Cultural and Racial Foundations of Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• Lori M. West, Connecticut College

Papers

• Sociocultural Foundations of American Education: Counternarratives of African American Teaching and Learning - Lori M. West, Connecticut College

• Teaching Black Biography as a Political Act - Ashley D Dennis, Northwestern University

• School-Based Racial Battle Fatigue and Trauma in the Lives of Black Students in TK–12th-Grade Schools - Katrina Hasan-Hamilton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Culturally Responsive Technology Integration: Closing the Digital Divide Through a Pedagogical Approach - Elissa W. Frazier, Loyola University Chicago

• How Culturally Intelligent Teachers Can Transform the Educational Experience and Lives of African American Students - Roblyn Lewter