29.082-22 - Decentering School: Exploring Community Spaces as Rich Sites for Teaching and Learning

• In Event: 29.082 - Roundtable Session 9

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium highlights an education borderlands: the intersection of community based programming and schools with the lens on spaces where education happens outside of school and how this work can influence curriculum within schools. Traditional schooling has a tight hold on the system of education, privileging schools as spaces of knowledge production whereas local community knowledge is marginalized to maintain the status quo. Using critical social theory as transformative knowledge for youth empowerment and reassertion of space, we explore the intersection of knowledge between schools, youth and community programming; and how local community programming knowledge can be (re)imagined to provide a critical context for education and liberate marginalized communities to inform the system of education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Reform

Chairs

• Shelley Zion, Rowan University

• Bianca Jontae Baldridge, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Centering Community Toward a Liberatory Public Education - Antwan Jefferson, University of Colorado - Denver; Cindy Gutierrez, University of Colorado - Denver

• Youth Participatory Action Research in the Borderlands - Monica Gonzalez, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Trans-Ecology of Activist Educators: How Life Experiences Shape Sociopolitical Youth Development Work - Ira Murray, University of Pittsburgh

• Developing a Critical Community Identity in Preservice Teachers: Shifts in Identity Based on Community Influence - Lisa Silverstein, University of Colorado - Denver