Envisioning New Paradigms for Civic Learning and Engagement

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The current confluence of social inequity, political polarization, and pandemic-related educational upheaval demands original and expansive approaches to youth civic learning and engagement that can cultivate inquiry, solidarity, and common cause. Civic education – the school-based formation of citizens – must be re-envisioned as a means of understanding and addressing these ongoing struggles. This session convenes an intergenerational and interdisciplinary group of scholars to engage in dialogue about where the field of civics education has been and where it needs to go in order to meet the challenges of our current context. Such a conversation will necessarily trouble normative paradigms of civic education and open space for broadening and deepening how we think about civic learning and engagement.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Joel Westheimer, University of Ottawa

Discussants

• James A. Banks, University of Washington

• Michelle Fine, City College of New York - CUNY

Panelists

• Kevin L. Clay, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Thea Abu El-Haj, Barnard College

• Antero Garcia, Stanford University

• Susan Jurow, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Harper B. Keenan, University of British Columbia

• LaGarrett J. King, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Kari Kokka, University of Pittsburgh

• Nicole Mirra, Rutgers University

• Christopher Rogers, University of Pennsylvania

• Beth C. Rubin, Rutgers University

• Amanda R. Tachine, Arizona State University