Reconceptualizing "Diversity" for Socially Just Education: Research Themes From Early Childhood to Higher Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium focuses on research that enables us to think about racial “diversity” not just as a form of assimilation or colonization, but as a project that requires us to reconceptualize how racially, ethnically and culturally diverse learning environments can foster educational benefits for all students – from Pre-K through higher education. The papers in this symposium will compare and contrast integration work being done (or not) in pre-K, K-12 and higher education with the goal of helping educators, policy makers, researchers and lawyers learn from each other, as the work of antiracist teaching and learning in pre-K-12 education should be informing higher education, while the insights on how maintain more diverse student enrollment should flow from higher education to Pre-K-12.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Amy Stuart Wells, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Racial Literacy for All: Fostering a Less Separate and More Equal Educational System - Jennifer McLaughlin Cahill, University of Pennsylvania; Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Toward Racial and Cultural Justice for Young Children: Naming Inequities, Problematizing Injustices in Pre-K - Mariana Souto-Manning, Erikson Institute; Ayesha Rabadi-Raol, Sonoma State University

• The Burden of Diversity Work - Amy Jones Haug, University of Kentucky

• Soul-Nourishing Teaching for Black, Indigenous, and Other Racially Minoritized College Students - Milagros Castillo-Montoya, University of Connecticut

Discussants

• Detra Price-Dennis, The Ohio State University

• Dianne Delima, University of California - Irvine