Fugitive Text in Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The field of Black Studies offers alternative ways to conduct inquiry in education. In this session, we center forms of research around histories and cultures within the Black Radical Tradition. We draw from the creative works of Octavia Butler, Ernest Gaines, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Bisa Butler, and Maya Angelou to demonstrate how knowledge-making requires expanding concepts across disciplinary boundaries. Black texts and artwork help us theorize in ways that have been erased/forgotten over time. Aligned with AERA’s theme on cultivating equitable education systems, the papers in this symposia co-conspire with black texts and artwork to fugitively map local, global and socio-political contexts of education.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Korina Jocson, York University

Papers

• Sowing Seeds, Exceeding Categories, and Un/Doing Praxis - Cee Carter, University of Vermont

• Quilting Portraits: Black Girls' Place-Making - Alisha Smith, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Retelling Catastrophe - Benjamin D Scherrer, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Cultural Displacement in Refugee Education - Mariam Rashid, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Discussant

• Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman, Teachers College, Columbia University