AERA Annual Meeting: Dispatches From the Field: Five Models of Collaborations for Teacher Agency and Social Justice

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Dispatches From the Field: Five Models of Collaborations for Teacher Agency and Social Justice

Fri, April 22, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: South Building, Level 1, Solana

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

American education is under threat nationally and locally. State laws are being enacted that ban “revisionist” teaching. School board meetings are erupting into physical violence with teachers accused of erasing American history with Critical Race Theory. Researchers and teacher educators can learn from teachers who have, even in this climate, discovered their agency for social justice. The papers in this symposium include examples of educators: (1) co-constructing art to teach critical literacy; (2) exposing the lack of anti-racism within culturally responsive teaching; (3) employing voices of students of color in coaching white teachers; (4) forming a teachers’ Freirean Culture Circle to address gender and LGBTQ issues, and; (5) collaborating with students of color and their families to disrupt racism.

Sub Unit

Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 02: Teacher Agency, Teacher Leadership and Teacher Activism Within and Beyond the Classroom

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Discussant

Simona Goldin, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill