Ethnic Studies Access, Impacts, and Empowerment in a Time of Political Opposition and Erasure

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Across the nation, a slew of new bills have been introduced to regulate how teachers teach the often uncomfortable and deep-seated history of racism and inequality in the founding and development of our nation.At the same time, over the last two years 19 states have introduced legislation supporting K-12 ES curriculum. Our diverse team of collaborators unites scholars across methodological, disciplinary, geographic, and relational positionalities to examine various ES approaches, in a cross-site, mixed methods study of the relationship between ES and students’ academic, behavioral, and social-emotional outcomes, in three distinct school districts on the West Coast and in the Southwest

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Policies, Mattering, and Praxis

Chair

• Lorena Guillén, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Ethnic Studies Increases Longer-Run Academic Engagement and Attainment - Sade Bonilla, University of Pennsylvania; Emily K. Penner, University of California - Irvine

• Can Ethnic Studies Reduce Inequality in Schools? Examining Ethnic Studies in a Southern California District - Lucrecia Santibanez, University of California - Los Angeles; Kyo Yamashiro, Loyola Marymount University

• Battling White-Washed, Watered-Down Histories Through Testimonio Pedagogy - Shiv R. Desai, University of New Mexico; Nancy López, University of New Mexico

Discussant

• Nolan L. Cabrera, University of Arizona