Engaging With Experiential Learning as Collective Cultural Scholarship

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 4:55 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Fostering Unity and Openness: Exploring Diversity Outcomes, Social Justice, and Experiential Learning in Higher Education (Table 35)

Abstract

This presentation seeks to analyze and highlight the importance of experiential learning trips as a method of unsettling the role of knowledge as solely a product of the academy toward inquiry and social justice (Yamauchi et al., 2022). We underscore our experiential learning trip to New Orleans, LA, where ruptures between community epistemologies and “historical” institutions became evident. This trip provided multiple entryways into discourses of knowledge and provided a generative space to critique and expand what information students received toward intentional knowledge and meaning-making. We position experiential learning trips as opportunities for anticolonial public pedagogy, which can amplify community voice and epistemologies. This presentation intersects anticolonial higher education practices, emergent student epistemologies, community-based learning, and collaborative public pedagogies.

Authors

• Kelcia Righton, Texas Christian University

• Pablo Montes, Texas Christian University