Offerings of Love and Accountability: Cultivating Empathy Through Loss and Grief

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session is composed of scholars and practitioners committed to cultivating and sustaining equity, empathy, racial justice, and liberation in education. Papers address the need to develop spaces that center grief and healing as a response to the many losses we continue to experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, with seldom to no institutional support. We present research and practitioner perspectives on the importance of (1) upholding Indigenous practices, (2) developing third spaces to continuously inform our praxis and pedagogies, and (3) creating spaces where we can learn how to tend to our grief and healing alongside our students. As a collective, we offer humanizing ways to disrupt racial injustice in and outside of educational spaces.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 08: Teachers’ Lives, Identities, and Journeys

Chair

• Arlene S. Daus-Magbual, San Francisco State University

Papers

• ATANG: An Offering to Our Grief and Healing Through the Pandemic - Arlene S. Daus-Magbual, San Francisco State University

• PEP PODS: Pin@y Educational Partnerships’ Praxis-Oriented Development Series - Lauren Arzaga Daus, University of California - Los Angeles; Jocyl Sacramento, California State University - East Bay

• Offering Cempasúchil: Grief Pedagogies for Ourselves and Our Students - Sharim Hannegan-Martinez, University of Michigan

Discussant

• Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University