New and Emerging Histories of Education in the American West and Pacific

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In 2016, historian Nancy Beadie and coauthors challenged the field of History of Education, writing that, a handful of exceptions notwithstanding, “virtually no scholarship… has highlighted the West or the historiography of the West as making a distinct contribution to the history of education as a field… .” The decade since, however, has seen substantial growth towards these goals, with scholars pursuing ambitious new works and offering analyses of the role of the West in our understanding of schooling and its relation to settler colonialism, racialization, indigenous counter stories, and transnational politics in the Pacific and beyond. This session highlights these new voices, putting them in conversation to ask how these histories speak to the present, and where the field should go from here.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• I. Jonna Perillo, University of Texas - El Paso

Discussant

• I. Jonna Perillo, University of Texas - El Paso

Panelists

• Michael Hines, Stanford University

• Derek Taira, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

• Gonzalo Guzmán, Macalester College

• Matthew G. Kelly, University of Washington

• Laura K. Munoz, University of Nebraska - Lincoln