Co-Designing Collective Learning for Ethnic Studies Teacher Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The institutionalization of Ethnic Studies in K-12 public schools raises fundamental questions for designing teacher learning that attends to the joint presence of radical possibilities, racialized tensions, and pragmatic concerns. This symposium builds upon burgeoning literature in teacher education and the learning sciences to explore collective-oriented design approaches to Ethnic Studies teacher education. The papers surface possibilities and precarities in designing collaborative learning that fosters collective agency for social change, nurtures coalitional and relational orientations, challenges traditional conceptions of disciplinary learning and practice, and engages affective dimensions of teachers’ learning trajectories. The session offers theoretical and methodological implications for design-based research that address issues of race and power, and pedagogical implications for co-designing learning among teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 06:Transformations in Teacher Education Policies, Research, and Practices

Chair

• Belén Moreno, University of California - Santa Cruz

Discussant

• Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University

Papers

• Designing Collective Agency for Social Change: Programmatic Promises and Precarities of Ethnic Studies Collaborative Learning - Josephine Pham, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Building Coalitions Through Co-Design: Possibilities and Complexities for Developing an Ethnic Studies Pedagogy - Christina Hewko, University of California - Santa Cruz; Jaedyn Wells, University of California - Santa Cruz; Jocelyn Espinoza Mendoza, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Challenging Disciplinary Learning & Practice in STEM Education - Emanuel Suarez Jimenez, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Trajectories of anxiety and reflexivity: White teacher educator subjectivities and Ethnic Studies co-design - Ian Slattery, University of California - Santa Cruz