Osotua and Umoja - Bridging Borders, Building Futures: Decolonized Virtual and Hybrid Collaborations for Global Learning and Faculty-Student Engagement

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium explores a global, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional initiative to reimagine collaborative learning and engagement in the 21st century. Drawing on ongoing partnerships between Alabama State University (an HBCU), United States International University–Africa (USIU–Kenya), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), panelists will examine strategies for building virtual and hybrid platforms that foster equity, inclusion, and innovation across disciplinary, geographic, cultural, and institutional boundaries within an anti-colonial framework guided by multi-vocality, relationality, and accountability. This session speaks to the AERA themes of global educational justice, and transformative pedagogies connected to imagining the future of continental and diaspora relationships and collaborations.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Caribbean and African Studies in Education

Chair

• Denise Davis-Maye, Alabama State University

Papers

• Afro-Diasporic Centered Internationalization: Blending Research and Practice - Dawn Michele Whitehead, American Association of Colleges and Universities

• Globalizing Inclusive Education Policy: Bridging Theory and Practice in Higher Education - Charity Muraguri, United States International University - Africa

• Reclaiming the Global Curriculum: Local Innovation in Technology Education from Low and Middle Income Countries - Leah Mutanu, United States International University - Africa; Joyce Muchemi, United States International University - Africa; Timothy Okech, United States International University - Africa

• Prompting Without Borders: Equitable AI Co-Creation Between Kenyan and U.S. Learners - Kenley Obas, Alabama State University

Session Organizer

• Denise Davis-Maye, Alabama State University

Discussant

• Tamara Bertrand Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign