Global Politics, Educational Self-Determination, and Intergenerational Learning in the Iranian Diaspora

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together educational scholars who analyze the complex dynamics of learning, development and self-determination in the Iranian diaspora. Weaving with contextual layers of global politics and histories of social movements, displacement, repression and reimagination, each of the four papers examines the conditions of education and parenting/caregiving among Iranian diasporic families, and the forms of communal education agentively developed by grandparents, parents/caregivers, extended family, community-based educators, and young people themselves. Together, these papers offer an expansive, interdisciplinary view of Iranian diasporic education and family life with broader implications for questions of education, migration, diaspora that attend to historical continuities, ruptures, and the everyday acts of imagining otherwise.[110]

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Pooneh Sabouri, Florida International University

Papers

• Researching Iranian Diasporic Education: Reflections on Political and Generational Dynamics in the U.S. - Roozbeh Shirazi, University of Minnesota

• Parenting Toward Belonging to the Not-Yet-There: Identity and Imagination in Iranian Immigrant Families - Fatemeh Hajnaghizadeh, Northwestern University

• Desire, Language, and Legacy: Iranian Parents Reimagining Bilingual Futures Amid Sociopolitical Tensions - Yalda M. Kaveh, Arizona State University; Sepide Pazhouhi, Arizona State University; Roya Fathalizadeh, Arizona State University

• Family Pedagogies and Intergenerational Learning on the Iranian Left - Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University; Mahdi Ganjavi, University of Toronto; Fatemeh Hajnaghizadeh, Northwestern University

Session Organizer

• Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University

Discussants

• Milad Mohebali, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Sanaz Farhangi, LeanLab Education