Looking Back, Looking Forward, Imagining Futures: CORIBE’s Black Education Research Agenda -- Impacts 20 Years Later

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This Session considers impacts of AERA’s Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) and the Commission’s research and action agenda after 20 years. The primary conceptual questions addressed across five papers guided the Commission’s inquiries and landmark publication: Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century:
What has happened to the Black education and socialization agenda, here, throughout the Diaspora and in Africa?
How can education research become one of the forms of struggle for Black education?
Looking back at CORIBE’s contributions and impacts and looking forward the papers will imagine ways to further democratize research processes in the future, affirming the healing centrality of culture in education research, curriculum, teaching and learning for human freedom.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• “To Serve the Present Age My Calling to Fulfill”: CORIBE’s Vision and Transformative Research Praxis - Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

• Culturally Sensitive Research and Evaluation: Advancing an Agenda for Black Education - Linda C. Tillman, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• CORIBE’s Influence: Founding the Black Education Research Center and Developing NY City’s Black Studies Curriculum - Sonya Douglass, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Continuity, Evolution and Application of CORIBE’s Black Education Research Agenda - Gloria S. Boutte, University of South Carolina

• Black Education’s Implications for non-Black People: A Relational Race Analysis - Zeus Leonardo, University of California - Berkeley

Discussant

• Kofi Lomotey, Western Carolina University