"Una escuela para transformar": Community Organizing Work as a Decolonial Act to Transform Public Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: Collective Action to Unsettle and Dismantle Educational Inequities

Abstract

The burgeoning scholarship on community organizing for educational change suggests transformational outcomes when it comes to countering failed school reforms. As each organizing work is contingent on the context, the purpose of this work is to center the experiences of the community leaders from Grupo de las Ocho Comunidades del Caño Martín Peña (G-8, Inc.) from San Juan, Puerto Rico. As part of a collaborative agreement with the centralized Department of Education of Puerto Rico (DEPR), G-8’s educational project aimed to design and implement a curriculum focus on leadership and social transformation. From a decolonial stance and a case study approach this paper aimed to convey the stories of how and why G-8 initiated a collaboration with the DEPR.

Author

• Marcos D. González Flores