Education Research Trustworthiness, Justice, and Democracy

Session Type: Virtual Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Justice ideals, justice-seeking, and persistent and pernicious patterns of injustice are intertwined with attempts to diminish democratic politics across the Americas and the world. This symposium will feature representatives of the national associations of educational researchers of Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and the US to discuss how their organizations are addressing these issues through critical comparative considerations of patterns and possibilities in the Americas. The panelist will examine whether truthfulness and transparency can be protected and matter in educational institutions and settings, especially in higher education environments where knowledge, information, and ideas need to be nurtured and issued free of constraints. This symposium will also take up the questions of where and how education research can be used and relied on to engender an agenda of policy actions that promote and support justice-seeking, strengthening democratic processes, practices and ideas. Finally, participants in the symposium will challenge themselves to address what makes for trustworthy education research. This invited virtual symposium is co-sponsored by the Americas Education Research Network.

Sub Unit

• AERA Research and Science Policy Series

Cosponsor

• Americas Education Research Network

Chair

• Felice J. Levine, American Educational Research Association

Discussant

• Gustavo E. Fischman, Arizona State University

Panelists

• Daniela Véliz Calderón, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

• Elizabeth Macedo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

• Pedro Alejandro Flores-Crespo, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

• Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles