Interrogating How We Teach Now: Parentscholars Co-Constructing Knowledge Alongside Our Children

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, a group of eight parentscholars (teachers, graduate students and/or educational researchers with school-age children who inform and motivate our work) will discuss, analyze and illustrate re-learning how to teach and learn from and alongside our children. Two primary questions will be addressed across each paper: (1) As parentscholars learning and teaching in a time of racial reckoning—how has our approach to teaching changed? (2) What specific pedagogical approaches or curricular tools have we discovered or co-constructed from/with our children to claim an alternate now?
After each paper is presented, a motherscholar and expert in the areas of both Critical Race Theory and parentscholaring will serve as the discussant.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Education

Chair

• Joy Howard, Western Carolina University

Papers

• School's Out: Motherscholaring as Co-Constructing Spaces to Learn - Joy Howard, Western Carolina University

• Motherschooling to Survive and Thrive - Tehia Starker Glass, University of North Carolina - Charlotte; Kaja Dunn, University of North Carolina - Charlotte; Candace Brown, University of North Carolina - Charlotte; Janaka Bowman Lewis, University of North Carolina - Charlotte; Kendra Jason, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

• If Not Us, Then Who? Parentscholars Creating the Educational Spaces They Desire - Brandi N. Hinnant-Crawford, Clemson University; Vincent D. Willis, University of Alabama

Discussant

• Cheryl E. Matias, University of San Diego