Intersectionality-Informed Praxis: Elevating Intersectional Consciousness in Teaching and Teacher Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Initially published about by U.S.-based, Black feminist scholars in legal studies and sociology, intersectionality has since expanded beyond its origins to applications across the globe in fields like economics, environmental studies, public health, and education. In this Division K symposium, education researchers will discuss efforts to apply understandings of intersectionality to teaching and teacher education praxes. The panelists will explain the criticality of educators’ understanding of their own multiple social identities, interlocking marginalizations, and how schooling is implicated in systemic oppressions. More specifically, they will discuss different tools created to take intersectionality from theoretical understandings to transformative practice.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• Mildred Boveda, Pennsylvania State University

Participants

• Martha Lorena Hernández Flores, Florida International University

• Christina S. Gilhuber, Europa-Universität Flensburg

• Lindsey Pike, Roger Williams University

• Elizabeth A. Ruiz, Arizona State University

• Nayma Sultana Mim, Pennsylvania State University

Discussant

• Lydia L Ocasio-Stoutenburg, Pennsylvania State University