Advancing Peace and Justice Through Humanizing Processes in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this session, we examine several new directions in critical peace, social justice, and human rights education theory, practice, and scholarship that cultivate humanizing processes in education, and in particular consider the concepts of transformative agency, dignity, praxis, and decoloniality in advancing peace and justice in our fields. As scholars whose work and teaching both critically engage these fields and grapples with these concepts, the panelists consider their distinctions and overlaps to frame the challenges and possibilities of implementing humanizing processes in diverse sites and contexts. We take up these intersections to provide a bridge for those whose work rests at the nexus of these fields and view it as a launching point for ongoing robust critical engagement and work.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Peace Education

Chair

• Brooke Harris Garad, Butler University

Papers

• Decolonial Undergrounds: Subcultural Learning for Peace and Human Rights - Noah Romero, Hampshire College

• Disrupting Hierarchy in Education: Learning Partners Collaborating for Peace and Social Change - Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Gettysburg College; Hana Huskić, Gettysburg College; Christina Noto, SOAR Colorado

• Engaging Research to Humanize Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth - Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco; Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Creating Humanizing and Transformative Educational Spaces Through Authentic Assessment: Toward Peace, Justice, and Human Rights - Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College; Alia Tyner, Stella and Charles Guttman Community College - CUNY

Discussant

• Rita Verma, Adelphi University