Memory as Method in Education: Policy Histories, Community Pedagogies, and Liberatory Futures

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 11:45 am

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Tracing intersections across policy, pedagogy, place, and praxis, this symposium reanimates overlooked histories to imagine liberatory educational futures. A historical ethnography of institutionalized student outreach at UCLA interrogates contested racial politics of access; epistolary pedagogy transforms intimate letters into curricular tools of memory and resistance; community archives from Lennox, California, anchor a place-based curriculum honoring neighborhood wisdom; and archival analyses of faith-rooted popular sex education counter moral authoritarianism through narratives of spiritual care and bodily autonomy. United by a commitment to memory as method, each inquiry converts localized evidence and intimate genres into strategies that disrupt inherited inequities, scaffold solidarity, and keep possibility alive.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Chair

• Brenda Y. Lopez, California State University - Fullerton

Papers

• Policy Tensions of Institutionalized Student-Initiated Outreach at UCLA for Communities of Color: A Historical Ethnography - Michelle Velasco, University of California - Los Angeles

• Negotiating Morality: Teaching and Archiving the Struggle for Comprehensive Sex Education in the Post-Roe Era - Gabriela G. Corona Valencia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Reclaiming the Archives of Lennox: Community Memory, Critical Pedagogy, and Educational Belonging - Edwin Leonidas Rivera Castellanos, University of California - Riverside

• Letters to Learn By: Epistolary-Based Pedagogy for Honoring Memory and Voice in the College Classroom - Cindy R. Escobedo, University of California - Los Angeles

Session Organizer

• Edwin Leonidas Rivera Castellanos, University of California - Riverside

Discussant

• Corinna D. Ott, University of California - Riverside