Research and Rewriting Knowledge for Just Education Renewal: Lessons and Learning From Sylvia Wynter

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This Presidential Session will explore the legacy of the Honourable Sylvia Wynter’s work in the field of education, with a particular focus on her research with Professor Joyce King, specifically the book by Wynter titled Do Not Call Us Negroes: How “Multicultural” Textbooks Perpetuate Racism, which sought to advance just educational renewal. Drawing from the fields of History, Black Studies, Qualitative Research, Anthropology, Linguistics, and Computer Science, presentations and discussant remarks will apply insights from Wynter’s scholarship to address the role of research in confronting the critical education policy challenges facing our imperfect multiracial democracy. These challenges include: a) efforts to eliminate Black Studies as critical curricula, b) the implementation of Ethnic Studies in K-12 schooling, and c) the promotion of justice-oriented science education and research methodologies.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

Participants

• Casey Philip Wong, Georgia State University

• Tanja Burkhard, Georgia State University

• Ebony Bervashun Rose, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Romonda Middlebrooks-Jefferson, Georgia State University

• Natalie Araujo Melo, Northwestern University

Discussant

• Jason R. Ambroise, William Paterson University