Unforgetting as Pedagogy: Reclaiming Histories and Reimagining Futures in Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 9:45 am

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium explores “unforgetting” as a pedagogical commitment in response to urgent social, epistemological, and technological challenges in education. Across psychology, mathematics, and childhood studies, the four papers engage themes of disciplinary reckoning, AI as a pedagogical partner, decolonization of mathematics, and fugitivity. Together, they examine how educational practices can surface excluded knowledges, confront educational harms, and imagine alternative ways of knowing, relating, and learning. From engaging students in ethical reflection on disciplinary histories and mobilizing AI to amplify erased perspectives in psychology, to rehumanizing mathematics through embodied, community-rooted pedagogy, to unforgetting children’s creative resistance to adult surveillance as curricula, these papers reimagine curriculum as an ethical engagement with knowledge, harm, and the possibilities of refusal, relation, and repair.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Francisco Medina, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Papers

• Pedagogy as Reckoning: Ethics and Futures in the Teaching of Disciplinary Knowledge - Francisco Medina, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Reimaging Psychology With and Against AI: Using ChatGPT as a Pedagogical Partner - Marjorine Henriquez-Castillo, Lehman College - CUNY

• Decolonization and Rehumanizing Mathematics in Teacher Education: Sensing New Relations - Atasi Das, Lehman College - CUNY

• Fugitive Kid Curricula: Unforgetting Children’s Acts of Learning Beyond Adult Control - Kushya Sugarman, Mount Holyoke College

Session Organizer

• Francisco Medina, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Discussant

• Marjorine Henriquez-Castillo, Lehman College - CUNY