11.037 - Division G Graduate Student Mentoring Event. Balancing Acts: Meaningful Engagement in Scholarship and Practice for Equitable Educational Opportunity—Closed Session

Session Type: Mentoring Session

Abstract

The Division G Mentoring Pre-conference Program (MPP) has the goal of providing mentoring and professional development to graduate students committed to building themselves as scholars committed to social justice. The focus of this year’s pre-conference event will be on thinking deeply about meaningful ways to engage in work in academic as well as community spaces. Breakout sessions of this MPP will include: 1) Faculty Panel: How do we approach working for social justice inside and outside of the academy and which research methods lend themselves to exploring the realities of marginalized communities? 2) Community Panel: Thoughtful Productivity: Avoiding Guilt and Fatigue, and Finding Balance in Justice Work. Ultimately, the 2017 Division G MPP is designed to initiate a conversation about educational social justice and to foster relationships between mentors and mentees at and beyond AERA 2017.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chairs

• Tanja Burkhard, University of Pittsburgh

• Kevin Lowell Clay, Rutgers University

• Eric Felix, University of Southern California

• Angel M. Miles Nash, University of Virginia

• Berenice Sanchez, Indiana University - Bloomington

Participants

• Bianca Jontae Baldridge, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Armando L. Trujillo, The University of Texas - San Antonio

• Michael E. Jennings, The University of Texas - San Antonio

• Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Arizona State University

• Timothy Jose San Pedro, The Ohio State University

• Manoj Govindaiah, RAICES Texas

• Darius Derron Prier, Duquesne University