Decolonizing Education in Vygotsky’s and Sociocultural Approaches: Developing Knowledge on the Ground (Table 18)

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 9:45 am

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Recent work in sociocultural scholarship has begun to grapple with the realities of a collapsing world and multiple deathly crises, including in education. In this symposium, we critically expand on this scholarship to center transformative, decolonial, and abolitionist approaches accountable to the struggles of the oppressed and future generations. Through an interdisciplinary discussion of eurocentric legacies in cultural-historical, sociocultural and activity theory frameworks, we highlight the need to decolonize these through attending to the urgency of producing theory-praxis on the ground with communities, including community college students in the psychology classroom, children and their play, and k-12 math educators. Our approaches challenge current top-down, exclusionary modes of teaching-learning, researching, and knowledge production in sociocultural scholarship and beyond.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Cultural-Historical Research

Chair

• Francisco Medina, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Papers

• Radicalizing the Legacies of the Past for the Tasks of Today - Karlyn R. Adams-Wiggins, Portland State University; Anna Stetsenko, Graduate Center - CUNY

• Breathing Life Into Psychological Theories With Community College Students - Francisco Medina, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• “I’ll Tell You the Truth”: Listening to Children in Service of Worldbuilding - Kushya Sugarman, Mount Holyoke College

• Grounded, Not Bounded: Engagements With Critical Numeracy - Atasi Das, Lehman College - CUNY