Scaling Equity-oriented Innovations for Just Education Futures: Navigating Power Relations During Contentious Times

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Amidst political challenges, how do we ensure educational innovations fostering just futures reach minoritized students in all learning contexts? How do we spread and sustain approaches explicitly attending to justice, dignity, and social transformation? In this symposium, early, mid and senior scholars from the learning sciences, policy, history, and organizational/social movements sociology mine the past to surface lessons about spread and scale that can inform these challenges. Panelists will discuss: power’s central role in efforts to spread and scale; how efforts to spread and scale can inadvertently undercut efforts to foster just futures; and power-attentive strategies for spread and scale during contentious times. This session will spark a robust dialogue on navigating power for more just educational futures and collective thriving.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Jennifer Higgs, University of California - Davis

Discussant

• Cynthia E. Coburn, Northwestern University

Panelists

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley

• Laura E. Hernandez, Learning Policy Institute

• Nichole D. Pinkard, Northwestern University

• Jose Eos Trinidad, University of California - Berkeley

• Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University