Reenvisioning Educational Experiences: Lessons From (Im)migrant Communities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, we bring together theoretical and empirical studies that critically examine diverse (im)migrant communities’ efforts in making their experiences intelligible. We show how children, youth, and parents co-construct social practices (and in many instances revitalize) as they move within/between geographical and conceptual spaces. Our theoretical papers guide the issues raised in the empirical studies by inviting us to move towards a (re)imagined “onto-epistemic posture” that gives agency to families/individuals who are at the center of (im)migration processes. In line with the theme of the 2021 AERA meeting, scholars in this symposium encourage us to re-envision educational experiences by allowing immigrant communities to participate as teachers in the articulations of their experiences.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Maryam Moeini Meybodi, University of California , Berkeley

Papers

• Towards a (Re)imagined Metalanguage of (Im)migration - Vianney A. Gavilanes, University of California-Berkeley

• In Search of Dignity: Discursive Practices at an Islamic Saturday School - Maryam Moeini Meybodi, University of California , Berkeley

• Entering Nepantla: Potentialities of a Mam Language Course - Cristina Mendez, University of California - Berkeley

• Literacies of Spatial Tense: Mobility and Indigenous Belonging - Patricia Baquedano-Lopez, University of California - Berkeley; Nathan Gong, University of California - Berkeley

• Manos que enseñan (Hands That Teach): Campesinas and Their Children Enacting the Pedagogies of Barbiar - Rosalinda Godinez, University of California Berkeley

Discussant

• Inmaculada Maria Garcia Sanchez, University of California - Los Angeles