Understanding Civic Agency and Voice of Higher Education Students

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 4:15 pm - Gold 1

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The papers in this roundtable explore different efforts and spaces that cultivate civic agency, voice, and future civic engagement. The first paper analyzes college students’ agency in the form of civic engagement, and the second explores community colleges as critical civic spaces that can either reproduce exclusion or foster democratic agency aligned with students’ visions of just and inclusive civic futures. The third paper explores higher education students’ K–12 disciplinary encounters, particularly those related to respectability, and how that impacts students’ experiences of belonging, empathy, and political voice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Democratic Citizenship in Education

Chair

• Seonmi Jin, Indiana University

Papers

• Conditions of Belonging: An Exploration of Political Voice, Discipline, and Belonging in Schools - Sarah Luria, University at Albany; Tamar Malloy, University of Colorado - Boulder; Marayna Martinez, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Reconceptualizing Civic Agency: An Agentic Analysis of Civic Engagement Practices and Concepts in Higher Education - Jeff Ching-Fan Lai, University of Iowa

• Reimagining Civic Life: Latinx Students’ Civic Identities in California Community Colleges - Mary Avalos, Coast Community; Erin Hilary Arruda, California State University - Long Beach