66.015 - "With and For" Not "On" or "About": Engaging the Limits of Education Research for Movement-Building

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this AERA symposium, several activist-scholars discuss movement-embedded methodologies they mobilize to challenge the university as the epicenter of or authority on “knowledge to action.” The papers bring together a variety of perspectives and experiences that reject methodologies that produce knowledge “on” or “about” youth, schools, educators, families, or communities toward action in their name. Instead, the papers engage border-crossing methodologies “with and for” them -- visibilizing and messing with borders that hierarchize and differently value certain vocabularies, epistemologies, and theories of change. Taken together, these papers illuminate how such a reframing from “on” or “about” to “with and for” is a complicated, dynamic praxis that centers, problematizes, and experiments with knowledge-making relations within, across, and beyond institutional spaces.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Methodologies and Ethics (The Shapes of Curriculum)

Papers

• Beyond the Walls: Community-Generated Radical Afro-Diasporic Research - Brian Lozenski, Macalester College

• Memories of Our Teacher Bodies: Building New Pedagogical Imaginings Through Collective Memory Work - Erin Beeman Stutelberg, Salisbury University

• Embodied Rescriptings in Ethnography: Critical Performance Ethnography Rehearsing Advocacy in Bilingual Education - Blanca Gabriela Caldas, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• "Once It's Online, Nobody Can Take It Back": Ethics of (Self-)Representation in Collaborative and Youth-Led Participatory Action Research - Jenna Cushing-Leubner, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

• Breaking the Glass: Tensions in Research "With and For" Education Justice Movements - Erin Lee Dyke, Oklahoma State University

• Race Radical Youth Participatory Action Research - Edwin Mayorga, Swarthmore College