Critical Consciousness and Transformational Learning: Exploring Ongoing Identity Development

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 12:40 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  In Roundtable Session: Developing Critical Consciousness and Identity Through Community-Based Research (Table 2)

Abstract

Social science and education researchers assert that capacity for resistance and challenge to oppression across social and cultural contexts can be acquired through transformative pedagogies that focus on examining social identity categories and connections to pervasive structural and institutional practices. This study seeks to extend this understanding by exploring the longitudinal influence of participating in a course that utilizes transformative pedagogies, course materials, exercises, and activities to encourage the practice of exploration of lived experiences within systems of power and privilege with the end goal of developing the necessary knowledge and skills to foster the ability to resist and challenge oppression and discrimination – critical action -in their lives.

Authors

• Jordana Simmons Berwise, Rowan University

• Shelley Zion, Rowan University

• Dorothy Shapland Rodriquez, Metropolitan State University of Denver

• Gabrielle A. McAllaster, Rowan University

• Charles A. Barnes, Rowan University

• Erica Watson Brown, Rowan University

• Nirmala Narayan, The George Washington University

• Crystal Hutchinson, Rowan University