Highlighted Session: Education across the African Diaspora: Emerging Research Perspectives, Practices, and Connections

Group Submission Type: Highlighted Paper Session

Proposal

The papers in this session employ multi-disciplinary perspectives to examine and enact visions of educational justice across the African Diaspora. Representing the 2023 cohort of the African Diaspora SIG Emerging Scholars Award recipients, each of the contributions explores the spectrum of theories, paradigms, and practices of advancing equity within and beyond schools at the individual, organizational, systemic, national, and global levels. Analysis of educational realities and struggles for educational justice throughout the African Diaspora offers possibilities to forge new connections, interpretations, and lessons from the diverse experiences of Black communities—as they are shaped by local histories, cultural practices, diasporic relations and exchanges, and the enduring legacies of slavery, colonialism, and racial capitalism. In focusing on the empowerment of people of the African Diaspora through education, the papers illuminate the transformative potential of education to positively impact lives across the African Diaspora.

Sub Unit

• African Diaspora SIG

Chair

• Krystal Strong, Rutgers University

Individual Presentations

• Anti-Colonial Orientations to Place-Based and Environmental Education - Fikile Nxumalo, University of Toronto

• Working Towards Fostering Culturally Responsive Classrooms: Illuminating the Risky Work of Teaching in the U.S. and Brasil - Tia C. Madkins, The University of Texas at Austin

Discussant

• Terrell R Morton, University of Illinois at Chicago