16.010 - Stop Killing Us! The Praxis of Morally Engaged Research Advancing Equal Educational Opportunity and Human Freedom

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This presidential symposium represents how epistemology and methodology grounded in the Black Intellectual Tradition advance education research and praxis through resisting Afrophobia, that is, anti-Black violence in schools and society. In alignment with the 2017 theme, Knowledge to Action: Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity, this symposium will demonstrate the under-theorized brilliance and intelligence of Black life with the goal of lifting the minds not only of people of African ancestry but also others who make policies and conduct inquiries in our communities using dehumanizing research methods. Symposium participants include emerging scholars engaged in a research apprenticeship guided by the Black Intellectual Tradition and senior scholars whose work explores ways decolonizing educational research and praxis can contribute to human freedom. Presenters will reflect on benefits of this apprenticeship by examining theory and research that challenge cultural and racial politics and ideologies that sustain underachievement, humiliating curriculum and other forms of epistemological violence. This symposium aims to broaden the understanding of what equal opportunity and rigor in research mean while detailing concrete pathways to achieving equal educational opportunity and solutions to disrupt curriculum violence to stop killing us!

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Joyce E. King, Georgia State University

Papers

• Give Us Water: Decolonizing Inquiry and Restorative Curriculum Praxis for Critically Conscious Citizenship - Joyce E. King, Georgia State University; Melissa Speight Vaughn, North-West University

• The Fallacy of Social Justice in Teacher Education and the Urgency for Afrocentric Epistemology and Praxis - Adrian Neely, Georgia State University

• Black and Brown Students Criminalized in Class: Impacts of Police in Schools as Educational Policy - La Trina Jackson, Georgia State University

• Participatory Action Research as Liberatory Praxis: Beyond Curriculum Violence, Toward Africology in Teacher Professional Learning Communities - Thais M Council, Georgia State University

• Stop Dehumanizing Us! Moral Disengagement Factors as Curriculum Violence in Educational Games About American Slavery - Valora M Richardson, Georgia State University

Discussants

• Linda C. Tillman, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Petronilha Beatriz Goncalves e Silva, Federal University of Sao Carlos