AERA Annual Meeting: Dismantling Colonization: Reclaiming Asian Diaspora Experience as Curriculum Knowledge

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Dismantling Colonization: Reclaiming Asian Diaspora Experience as Curriculum Knowledge

Sat, April 13, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 409

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In this symposium, we respond to the American Educational Research Association’s call to educational scholars to engage with ‘illuminating frameworks, humanizing pedagogies, and liberatory theorizing’ through research aimed at dismantling colonization and racial injustice and reclaiming Asian Diaspora Experience (ADE) as curriculum knowledge that counts. Historically, ADE has been excluded in the field of education sustaining the colonial history of Asia/East constructed as the ‘other’ opposite to the norm, Europe/West. This othering is reflected in the terms ‘native,’ ‘oriental,’ and ‘yellow race’ and operationalized in the banning of anti-racist books and the teaching of ethnic studies in several states in the U.S. Challenging this racist legacy, this symposium opens curriculum to alternative histories, experiences and knowledges, historically excluded and silenced.

Dismantling Colonization: Reclaiming Asian Diaspora Experience as Curriculum Knowledge

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