Challenging Legislative Efforts to Silence Critical Theories and Undermine Justice-Centered Movements in Teaching and Teacher Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Recent legislation across the U.S. has attempted to ban Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools as a tactic to undermine justice-centered movements and educational efforts that confront oppressive systems and structures stemming from the forces of settler-colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy. This session creates a space for leading critical scholars to engage decolonial and anti-racist analyses on the current impacts that such legislation has on pedagogy, curriculum, and teacher education. The panelists will discuss ways in which critical theories in education can sustain hope, coalition-building, and liberatory praxis in teaching and teacher education.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education

Chairs

• Jeremy Garcia, University of Arizona

• Valerie J. Shirley, University of Arizona

Speaker

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Panelists

• Dorinda Carter Andrews, Michigan State University

• Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Northwestern University

• Kevin Kumashiro, Hofstra University

• Django Paris, University of Washington