Silent or Silenced? Naming and Disrupting Institutional Barriers to Community-Engaged Scholarship in Academic Spaces

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

Youth, educators, and community members who engage within academic scholarship spaces (e.g., university partnerships, conferences) often navigate difficult terrain. Institutional barriers and gatekeeping (e.g., steep conference costs, lack of acknowledgement of intersectional roles of community members) can circumscribe the engagement of youth and community members in both participating in and presenting research. This workshop provides a forum to (1) discuss the challenges and opportunities of community-engaged scholarship and (2) to partner with community members and researchers to ask: How can we disrupt institutional barriers that limit community-engaged scholarship engagement? This session will position dialogue in the context of AERA as a case study for examination of institutional supports and barriers and to identify strategies for successful community engagement.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice

Chair

• Daniela Kruel DiGiacomo, University of Kentucky

Papers

• Youth Perspectives in Primarily Adult Scholarly Spaces: Creating and Sustaining Welcoming Environments for Youth Researchers - Daniela Kruel DiGiacomo, University of Kentucky; Sam Mejias, Parsons School of Design; Deepa Sriya Vasudevan, American Institutes for Research; Syeda Safwath-Tabassum; Sanaa Kahloon, Harvard University; Connor D. Flick, Brown University

• Practicing School-Based and Community-Based Educators’ Experiences: Barriers and Solutions to Growing Agency in Research-Practice Partnerships - Kate Westaby, Urban Institute

• Landscape Analysis of Efforts to Address Institutional Policy and Advocacy - Annalee G. Good, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Virginia Downing, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant

• Shelley Zion, Rowan University