Moving Past Woke: Turning Awareness Into Action Disrupting Racialized Exclusionary Practices in Public Schools

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Abstract

Educational research has established a link between zero tolerance disciplinary policies and increases in racial disproportionality in suspensions and expulsions of students of color. This project builds on a previous critical community-based participatory action study of Rivertown, a school district with urban characteristics in upstate New York, where we have been working with parents of color whose children are subjected to exclusionary discipline. Using the framework of Critical Race Theory in education and Freirean critical consciousness (Freire, 2005), we sought to move beyond simply documenting the failures of public schools, and begin to explore possibilities for transformation through collective action.

Authors

• Denise G. Yull, Binghamton University - SUNY

• Marguerite A. Wilson, Binghamton University - SUNY

• Sean G. Massey, Binghamton University - SUNY