When Social Justice Parenting and Teaching Intersect: A Critical Arts-Based Collective Autoethnography

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 1:45 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Parenting, Painting, and Puppetry: Innovative Pedagogies for Art Education in a Changing World

Abstract

This presentation explores how two Asian female faculty members in art teacher preparation programs used arts-based research and Critical Race Theory to develop a collective autoethnography grounded in their experiences as immigrant scholar mothers navigating social justice in both parenting and teaching. Although arts-based autoethnography offers powerful potential for reflexive inquiry, it remains underutilized in lesson design. This session focuses on how the presenters transformed their autoethnographic process into a creative and theoretical foundation for developing culturally responsive art education projects. Participants will explore how personal narratives and visual inquiry can be used to design meaningful pedagogical strategies that foster identity awareness, empathy, inclusion, and cultural representation in contemporary art classrooms.

Authors

• Ting Fang Chien, Colorado State University

• Ran Qi, Weber State University