Reparative Education: The Politics and Practice of Repair

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium panel will examine repair as a praxis through which scholars, practitioners, and communities can imagine and make just futures of education. Thinking with Sriprakash et al’s (2020, 2022) “reparative futures of education” framework alongside theories of reparation and redress (for example, Táíwò 2021; Aslam 2023) we interrogate the practices, politics, and stakes of material, epistemic, and pedagogic reparations of educational injustices. Papers in the session explore the historical-structural formations of racial and class injustices in education across different geographies: South Africa, England, Liberia, India, and the United States. In doing so, we collectively examine the interconnected possibilities of repair as a globally-significant lens for educational justice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education

Chairs

• Tyler Hook, University of Pennsylvania

• Amelia Simone Herbert, Barnard College

Papers

• Reparative Futures of Education - Arathi Sriprakash, University of Oxford

• Schooling for Reparative Futures by Moving Beyond Aspiration - Amelia Simone Herbert, Barnard College

• Plot(ting), Community Gardens, and Plantation Futures: Understanding Resistance and Repair in Educational Reform in Liberia - Tyler Hook, University of Pennsylvania

• Repair as Praxis in Educational Research: Methodological Implications - Annabel Wilson, University of Oxford; Claire Neaves, University of Oxford; Alice Willatt, University of Oxford

• Temporal Refusals: Towards Reparative Temporalities - Karishma Desai, Rutgers University

Discussant

• Arathi Sriprakash, University of Oxford