Education, Research, and Narrative Change: The Role of History in Higher Education Courses, Curricula, and Research

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

In recent years, the work of justice reform has begun to include efforts to acknowledge histories of injustice––to reckon with historical racism as part of the work of reform. These ideas call for a change in our understanding of both the substance and process of education and research. How is and should the history of racial injustice in the justice system be reflected in academic research and curricula? How do we develop courses and curricula that inform students, communities, and educational institutions about the connection between past injustices and current policy, practice, and narrative? How can the expertise of people directly impacted by the justice system inform and guide the work of educators and researchers? Panelists will discuss the potential to build a knowledge base around such efforts that is useful to educators, researchers, community members, and the broader justice reform and social justice policy community.

Sub Unit

• Area IX. Comparative & Historical Perspectives: / 68. Human Rights

Individual Presentations

• Racial Justice and Abolition Democracy: An Action Curriculum for A Just Society - Bruce Western, Columbia University; Bernard E. Harcourt, Columbia University

• Suppressing Education to Silence Resistance: An American Tradition in Black Lives - Vivan Nixon, Columbia University

• Criminal Justice and the Social Contract - David Garland, New York University

Chair

• Katharine Huffman, Columbia University

Discussants

• Bruce Western, Columbia University

• Lisette B. Hughes, Hofstra University / Columbia University

• Michael McBride, Live Free USA

• Jason Seals, Merritt College

Organized by a Division or external group?

The Square One Project at the Columbia Justice Lab