69.011 - Democratic Education, Race, and the Classroom: Content and Pedagogy in a Diverse Society

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In this session, participants will focus on critical issues around teaching and curriculum in relation to three areas: advancing our understanding of culture, language, race, class, gender, and other forms of difference; creating pedagogical approaches that engage ideas that are deemed uncomfortable; and examining classroom content that promotes students’ engagement with historical and contemporary problems. It will address questions of what counts as knowledge, whose knowledge counts, for whom does the knowledge count, and with what expected goals and outcomes in a diverse society?

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• A. Lin Goodwin, The University of Hong Kong

Participants

• Kenneth M Zeichner, University of Washington

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Cynthia Cruz, University of California - Santa Cruz

Discussant

• A. Lin Goodwin, The University of Hong Kong