Protracted Refugee Situations and Public Scholarship for Democratic Education

• In Event: Roundtable Session 6

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Complementing AERA’s conference theme “public scholarship to educate diverse democracies,” we suggest the converse – diverse democracies to educate public scholars/hip – continues to be necessary and that both enable more comprehensive understandings of how diversity and public scholarship inform one another. Instead of asking how we might solve the “problem” of difference, we may be better served in asking ‘what problems might difference solve for us?’ (Honig, 1998, 2001). Toward that end, this session centers an oft overlooked population that has much to contribute to our ongoing conversation of democracies and the conduct and dissemination of public scholarship.

Sub Unit

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

Chairs

• Brendan D. Maxcy, Indiana University - IUPUI

• Thu Suong Thi Nguyen, Indiana University - IUPUI

Papers

• Constructing and Contesting Racialized Identities Among Somali Youth: Visible Identities as Sites of Racialization - Nimo Abdi, University of Minnesota

• Exploring Complex and Hybrid Identities Within U.S. Schools: The Afghan American Experience - Saugher Nojan, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Former Burmese Refugees Negotiate Non-/mis-/emerging Recognition: Community Organizing and U.S. Midwest Schools - Thu Suong Thi Nguyen, Indiana University - IUPUI; Brendan D. Maxcy, Indiana University - IUPUI