Constructing an ArtSpace to Resist BIPOC Fragmentation and to Construct Possibilities for Educational Justice: An Arts Workshop

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

In the racialized structures of educational research and praxis, too often are BIPOC educators, youth, and communities asked to subsume their creative, raced, and cultured selves for the purposes of knowledge production or learning, a form, we argue, of self-fragmentation. This workshop creates a space for attendees to gather and reflect on the role that arts-based research and teaching– creative approaches to knowledge-making that can center BIPOC ways of knowing and being– might play in resisting that fragmentation in order to pursue a vision of educational justice. Co-facilitated by three BIPOC educator/researcher/artists, this workshop will be divided into four parts: co-learning, co-teaching, co-making, and co-reflecting, during which participants will engage in conversation and arts-making to collaboratively construct visions of justice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Chair

• Justin A. Coles, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Presenters

• Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut

• Ankhi Guha Thakurta, Boston College

Papers

• Constructing an ArtSpace to Resist BIPOC Fragmentation and to Construct Possibilities for Educational Justice: An Arts Workshop - Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut; Ankhi Guha Thakurta, Boston College; Justin A. Coles, University of Massachusetts - Amherst