Innovation Education: New Strategies for Social Transformation and Community Empowerment

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium is designed to explore new pedagogies that shape students’ educational experiences. The central argument is that intensified oppression in urban communities has threatened the type of educational spaces that foster hope and radical imaginations for youth of color and that restoring hope will require creating new pedagogies that focus on “radical healing”. Radical healing involves developing pedagogical spaces of resiliency that lead to improvements in teaching and learning for youth of color in the midst of structural inequality. To illustrate the development of new pedagogies in traditional and non-traditional settings, we share our own pedagogical approaches and examine the linkages between three foundational frameworks in the field—Critical pedagogy, youth participatory action research, and culturally relevant pedagogy.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Section 5: Social Context of Research on Schools and Communities

Chair

• Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University

Papers

• Ethnic Studies in Urban Schools - Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University

• Strength to Love: Reducing Health and Educational Disparities Through a Focus on STEM Education and Climate Justice Among Urban Youth - A.A. Akom, San Francisco State University

• Radical Healing and a Pedagogy of Love - Shawn A. Ginwright, San Francisco State University

• What is a Pedagogy of Hope and Love in Times Like These? - Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade, San Francisco State University

Discussant

• Pedro A. Noguera, New York University