Discovering (to Construct) the Educational Possibilities of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Video-Based Linguistic Anthropological Approaches

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Culturally sustaining pedagogies (CSP) offer a transformative approach to education for children and youth who have experienced racial injustice. This panel argues by deepening our understanding of the cultural practices that ungird CSP in community-based settings we can better construct educational possibilities across P-20 systems. Panel participants apply video-based linguistic anthropological approaches to discover the discrete social, linguistic, and embodied practices of children and youth, who along with their community educators, are participating in the educational disciplines of traditional dance, culture, and heritage languages. The novel approach of this panel promises to generate more robust theorizing of CSP, which is still in its nascent stages, while informing the construction of equitable and socially just programs in community and school settings.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Language and Social Processes

Chairs

• Sarah Jean Johnson, University of Texas - El Paso

• Amelia (Amy) Kyratzis, University of California - Santa Barbara

Papers

• Community Teachers’ Practices for Rescaling Mixteco: Mobilizing Epistemic Ecologies in a Preschool Language Maintenance Program - Amelia (Amy) Kyratzis, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Sustaining “Qazaqness” in a Community-Based Cultural Center in Southern California - Munira Kairat, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Discipline With a Heart: The Engendering of Ethos and Professional Perception in Folkloric Dance - Sarah Jean Johnson, University of Texas - El Paso

• Rescaling Languaging and Knowledge in Paraguayan Schools: Culturally Sustaining and Translanguaging Pedagogies as Scalar Projects - Katherine Mortimer, University of Texas - El Paso

Discussant

• Marjorie E. Faulstich Orellana, University of California - Los Angeles