Memories of Social Justice Teaching Practices

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will share examples of social justice teaching practices from five qualitative studies. These studies encompass a variety of school subjects (math, literacy, social studies) and grade levels (pre-kindergarten, middle school, and high school) to illustrate that social justice teaching practices can occur in any PK-12 setting. Furthermore, these studies demonstrate a variety of critical theories useful for social justice teaching: critical pedagogy, queer pedagogy, multicultural citizenship education, critical mathematics, and critical literacy. Often in teacher education, pre-service teachers seem frustrated with a lack of models for social justice teaching. These studies aim to make social justice teaching more transparent by offering examples based in theory, so that teachers can form new memories of teaching practices that are in line with an equity mindset.

Sub Track

• Teacher Education

Individual Presentations

• Cultivating Communities of Care: Story Circles as Social Justice Practice - Courtney Cook, University of Texas; Celina Martinez-Nichols, University of Texas

• [Re]membering Gender in Early Childhood Education - Laura Bower-Phipps, Southern Connecticut State University; Jessica S. Powell, Southern Connecticut State University; Marissa Bivona, Southern Connecticut State University; Rebecca Harmon, Southern Connecticut State University; Anne Olcott, Westville Community Nursery School

• Face-to-Face Contact Pedagogies to Humanize Unfamiliar Ethnocultural Differences - Joanne Pattison-Meek, University of Toronto

• Teaching the ‘monumental’ Columbus to Newcomer students - Jay Shuttleworth, Long Island University; Josef Donnelly, International Community High School

• Marriage Equality Math - Summer Melody Pennell, Truman State University; Bryan Fede, University of North Carolina