Reimagining Educational Futures: Critical Co-Design Toward Just and Antiracist Education

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Leveraging Partnerships to Serve the Whole Child: Supportive and Antiracist Practices (Table 4)

Abstract

In this proposal, we respond to this year’s call to dismantle racial injustice by considering the ways researchers collaborate with communities toward new educational possibilities. Partnership work has often been positioned as a means of democratizing education and disrupting unidirectional research by including the voices and ideas of educators, students, and communities. Here, we interrogate the ways participatory design research (PDR) projects can transform education when they are grounded in critical theories of learning (e.g., Freire, 1970; Yosso, 2005). To that end, we look across two PDR projects to better understand varied approaches to reimagining educational futures by attending to power and privilege, and meaningfully centering all participants.

Authors

• Kristina M. Stamatis, University of Nebraska - Omaha

• Ung-Sang Albert Lee, University of Nevada - Las Vegas