Knowing Is Never Enough: The Courts, Schooling, and the Law

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

The title for this session is a “re-mix” of the conference theme: Non Satis Scire: To Know Is Not Enough. This year’s conference theme provides a fitting platform for CRT scholars in education to consider the ultimate purpose of CRT: social justice. Since the inception of Critical Race Theory in Education in 1995, scholars have produced over 300 books, articles, and book chapters devoted to critiques of policy, pedagogy, and practices across the K-16 spectrum of education. Over twenty special journal issues have been devoted to analyzing data and conceptualizing extensions of CRT in education. Despite CRT’s growth in education as a theoretical lens through which we can examine educational inequity, one aspect of CRT that scholars have yet to fully develop is a robust agenda for social change. In this Presidential Session we will ask CRT scholars, both in education and the law, to not only consider how we use CRT for critique and analysis on social and educational issues, but also, how we can use CRT to create and execute a substantive and effective agenda for social justice and change.

Sub Unit

• Presidential Session

Cosponsors

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Educational Policy and Politics

• Graduate Student Council

Chair

• Thandeka K. Chapman, University of California - San Diego

Participants

• Richard Delgado, Seattle University

• Jean Stefancic, Seattle University

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• William F. Tate, Washington University in St. Louis

• Daniel Gilbert Solorzano, University of California - Los Angeles

• Adrienne D. Dixson, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

• Thandeka K. Chapman, University of California - San Diego