Community Landmarks: Sociohistoric Constructions of Community and Their Influence on Schooling Practices

• In Event: 29.082 - Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: 29.082-1 - Conceptualization, Measurement, and Significance of School and Campus Communities

Abstract

This paper uses five schooling counter-narratives of community to consider pedagogical practices and socio-historical notions of community: 1) How service-based definitions of community held by Black women school founders in the early 20th century were enacted in their schools; 2) How commonly held values of agency and student activism influenced pedagogy in the Freedom Schools of Mississippi in 1964; 3) How a community which valued young children of color as democratic citizens enacted civic action practices; 4) How familial constructions of a school community supported Latina teachers as they enacted culturally powerful pedagogy in an elementary school; 5) How a Native American high school’s community demonstrates the nature of the struggle between school and community.

Author

• Anna Falkner, University of Memphis