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Before We Were Whole: (Re)Membering Our Lives in Ghana, West Africa

Mon, April 20, 4:05 to 6:05pm, Virtual Room

Session Type: Symposium

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This session is a deliberate reconnection of educational researchers and practitioners consciously exploring their past as they seek to liberate the educational system. The panel includes Black women visual and performing artists, educational non-profit directors, and teacher educators who share how their lived experiences, identities, and development were influenced by time spent in Ghana, West Africa, for the “Writing Our Lives” Full Circle Retreat led by Dr. Cynthia B. Dillard (Nana Mansa II of Mpeasem, Ghana, West Africa). Using autoethnography and arts-based research, the panelists discuss Dillard’s (2012) (re)membering as the impetus for embracing their African identity and conducting research to challenge anti-Blackness across the educational landscape.

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