Creating, Sustaining and Protecting Fugitive, “Third Spaces” of Learning with/in/against an Authoritarian State

Multiple Presenter Session: Alternative Session

Abstract

This alternative, interactive session presents key concepts and empirical data on third spaces of learning and how these spaces can be created, sustained and protected, especially as we enter a period of authoritarian governments in the U.S. and globally. As public schools become pressured to eliminate critical thought, where might we find fugitive, third spaces, learning from successful existing spaces and historical attempts to create and protect spaces under Jim Crow and colonialism (e.g. freedom schools. Brazilian citizen schools, memory parks, etc.) Two presentations will provide concepts and data on fugitive, third spaces for a panel of four critical scholars to respond to, interspersing audience interventions. The session is designed to be a dynamic and interactive session to brainstorm together toward creating and protecting educational spaces of affirmative resistance in the face of repression of free thought.

Sub Track

• AESA

Presenters

• M. Francyne Huckaby, Texas Christian University

• Tania Ramalho, SUNY Oswego

• Isabel Nuñez, Purdue University Fort Wayne

• Brian Schultz, Miami University

• Kathryn Herr, Montclair State University

• Cynthia Benally, University of Utah

• Gary Anderson, New York University