Division B Fireside Chat. #BlackLivesMatter: Integrating Current Sociopolitical, Economic, and Cultural Events Into U.S. Public School Curriculum for Critical Consciousness

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session sparks a conversation about the ways students and teachers can co-create critically conscious curriculum that combats corporatized, marginalized, and deficit education models. Because U. S. socio-political, economic and cultural climates have brought transracial and transgender crisis into the classroom, K-12 curriculum should prepare students to understand these difficult topics and to connect these events to their lives and communities. Further, the lack of critical curriculum promotes systems of standardized schooling, the prison industrial complex, and Black and Brown bodies being pushed out of school. As we situate the conversation in current events, we hope to create a cohesive contextual curriculum of resistance, activism, wellness, and, in some cases, survival.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Cosponsor

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chairs

• Adrianne Rochelle Pinkney, Emory University

• Tiffany J. Williams, Miami University - Oxford

Speakers

• Lamar L. Johnson, Miami University - Oxford

• Denise M. Taliaferro Baszile, Miami University

• Joshua Rovner, The Sentencing Project

• Crystal T. Laura, Chicago State University

• Theodorea Regina Berry, The University of Texas - San Antonio