Curriculum as Remedy and Reparation: Research and Repair Through Community-Based Curriculum Collaboratives

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This Presidential Session convenes activists, scholars, and practitioners, who engage and enact historical research as a site of continuous struggle that is made and remade in communities. This panel will address the foundational question of what it means to teach and learn history in ways that are future building and reparative. Including representatives from collaborative local history projects, this panel highlights research partners who support curricular efforts that are rooted in community memory and action and allow students to grapple with local histories in ways that remedy historical and ongoing injustices. Participants will discuss their intentional and iterative collaboration with activists and community members whose lived experiences relate to the focal history and come to constitute core elements of the curricular design process and materials.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Abby Reisman, University of Pennsylvania

Participants

• kihana miraya ross, Northwestern University

• Krystal Strong, Rutgers University

• Tiferet Ani, University of Pennsylvania

• Sarah Calise, Vanderbilt University

• Hayley Vatch, Denver Public Schools

• Jessica Marshall, Spencer Foundation

Discussant

• Elizabeth Todd-Breland, University of Illinois at Chicago