Disrupting Education Through Innovation: Points of Entry for Disciplinary Change

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Change within a discipline requires innovative action on many levels. This interactive session will highlight multiple points of entry for building “disciplinary infrastructure” in educational psychology that broadens participation, disrupts current systems of power and privilege, and expands the perspectives that inform the field. Drawing from their own experiences as scholars and leaders who are attempting to affect change, participants in the session will discuss: 1) foundational challenges to broadening participation in educational psychology; 2) the role of journals and other dissemination outlets in supporting disciplinary change; 3) equity focused reform in the context of doctoral programs; 4) decolonizing courses and syllabi; and, 5) building a program of community-engaged scholarship and supporting students who aspire to do this work.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction

Chair

• Terrell Roderick Morton, University of Missouri - Columbia

Speakers

• Kimberley Edelin Freeman, Howard University

• Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University

• Krystal Lira, Michigan State University

• Jennifer A. Schmidt, Michigan State University

• Revathy Kumar, University of Toledo

• DeLeon Gray, Black and Belonging