Re-imagining Black Educational Futures for Black youth: A University Multi-School Partnership in Vancouver, Canada

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 11:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Educational Uncertainty, Liminal Space and Black Futures

Abstract

Canadian research has tended to overlook educational research involving Black student academic success in British Columbia (B.C.), relying on data from the USA and from Eastern Canada. This mixed-methods study addresses this gap though an inquiry with secondary school students who participated in a university partnership with seven school districts, called UBC Black Futures, aimed to broaden students’ academic horizons, part of a five-university national project. The study is framed in literature on race, schooling and inequity, liberatory approaches that value Black students’ various diasporic heritages and cultures and youth academic and career aspirations and future outcomes. The findings give a demographic profile of contemporary Black students across school districts as well as their daily concerns and future aspirations.

Author

• Annette M. Henry, University of British Columbia