Academic Upgrading Students Remember their Pasts and Dream for their Futures through Photovoice

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

This symposium spotlights photovoice projects created by multiethnic students from an academic upgrading program at a community college in Toronto. Students’ projects emerged from a participatory research partnership between educators from the college and researchers from a local university. They document students’ family and community histories, struggles navigating often inhospitable school structures, immigration journeys, and dreams for the future. Members of our collaborative, including college students, faculty, and university partners, will lead the symposium. Following an introduction and a screening of students’ photovoice, attendees will be engage in conversations with members of the research team to consider how intergenerational, participatory research can challenge inequitable structures and streamed curriculum in the college system and flatten research hierarchies in university-school partnerships.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Rob Simon, University of Toronto

Papers

• Theoretical Frameworks and Methodology - Rob Simon, University of Toronto; Ashleigh A. Allen, University of Toronto - OISE

• Context and Participants and Data Sources - William Edwards, University of Toronto; Melissa Arasin, University of Toronto

• Findings - Jessica Taylor Charland, Brock University; Samara Rosenbaum, University of Toronto - OISE

• Educational Significance - Jennifer Emelife, University of Toronto - OISE