Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ), a SIG of the American Educational Research Association

AERA 2007 CESJ Sponsored Sessions

Advancing Social Justice in Education: Expanding the Conversation

Type: Paper Session 1
Time: Monday, April 9, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Place: Marriott Chicago Downtown, Lakeview, Second Floor

Session Participants

Organizer: Nana Osei-Kofi (Iowa State University) oseikofi@iastate.edu

Chair: Anne Fairbrother (State University of New York - Oswego)

Discussant: Virginia M. Lea (Sonoma State University) virginialea@earthlink.net

Critical Mathematics Pedagogy: Three Teachers’ Beginning Journey
David W. Stinson (Georgia State University), Carla R. Bidwell (Georgia State University), Christopher C. Jett (Georgia State University), Ginny C. Powell (Georgia State University), & Mary M. Thurman (Georgia State University)

Art for Social Change: How the Arts Function as Critical Education
Marit Dewhurst (Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Rounding 'Em Up on the East Side of the Wild West: Four Pillars or One Big Corral?
Erin J. Graham (University of British Columbia)

Unburning the Cross: Lifting the Veil on Christian Privilege and White Supremacy: Building Multicultural Educational/Workplace Settings
Chris Clark (University of Maryland - College Park)

Against the Tyranny of Standardization: A Rethinking School Review of Three Critical Literacy Initiatives in Public School Settings

Type: Interactive Symposium
Time: Monday, April 9, 4:05 p.m. - 5:35 p.m.
Place: Marriott Chicago Downtown, Indiana, Sixth Floor

Session Participants

Organizer: David Paul Levine (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
dlevine@email.unc.edu

La Escuela Fratney: Critical Literacy Within a Multicultural, Antiracist Curriculum
Rita Tenorio (La Escuela Fratney, Milwaukee, WI)

The "Tech Squad" at W.E.B. Du Bois High School - Student Reporters Take on Social Justice Issues
Larry Miller (W.E.B. Du Bois High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

An Overview of the Struggle for Critical Literacy Instruction in Public Schools
Wayne Au (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

"The Roving Readers" - Parental Empowerment Through Enriching Literacy Instruction
David Paul Levine (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)

Critical Educators for Social Justice - SIG Business Meeting

Type: Business Meeting
Time: Monday, April 9, 6:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Place: Marriott Chicago Downtown, Houston, Fifth Floor

Session Participants

Organizer: Yuriko C. Wellington (University of Hawai'i - Manoa) ywelling@hawaii.edu

Chair: Margarita I. Berta-Avila (California State University - Sacramento) bamargie@skymail.csus.edu

Participants: SIG Leadership—Chris Clark (University of Maryland - College Park) chriseclark@mac.com, Patricia H. Hinchey (Pennsylvania State University) pxh12@psu.edu, Nana Osei-Kofi (Iowa State University) oseikofi@iastate.edu, Mara Sapon-Shevin (Syracuse University) msaponsh@syr.edu, & Sally O. Thomas (Chapman University) sthomas@chapman.edu

AND YOU!

An Epistmology of Change: Doing Social Justice Research in the Academy

Type: Symposium 1
Time: Tuesday, April 10, 8:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Place: Marriott Chicago Downtown, Great America, Sixth Floor

Session Participants

Organizer: Carolyn C. Leung (Harvard University) panethnicgirl@gmail.com

Chair: Daniel Gilbert Solorzano (University of California - Los Angeles) solorzano@gseis.ucla.edu

Discussant: Michael E. Jennings (University of Texas - San Antonio) michael.jennings@utsa.edu

Ethnic/Racial Identity in Relation to the Academic Profession
Siomara E. Valladares (University of California - Los Angeles)

Stories of Personal Courage: Asian-Pacific-American Women Doing Social Justice Research in Education
Carolyn C. Leung (Harvard University)

Epistemology of Action: Patterns in Participatory Action Research With Students
Noah A. Rubin (Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Educating All: Immigration, Identity, and Critical Education

Type: Paper Discussion (formerly known as Roundtables) 1
Time: Tuesday, April 10, 10:35 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Place: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand Ballroom, Sections C-D North, East Tower - Gold Level

Session Participants

Organizer: Yuriko C. Wellington (University of Hawai'i - Manoa) ywelling@hawaii.edu

Chair: Yuriko C. Wellington (University of Hawai'i - Manoa) ywelling@hawaii.edu

Chinese Graduate Students in Canadian Postsecondary Classrooms: Identity Formation and Learning Context
Dan Cui (University of Alberta) & Jennifer Rosemarie Kelly (University of Alberta)

Discussant: Ximena Zuniga (University of Massachusetts - Amherst) xzuniga@educ.umass.edu

Reading the Word and the World: The Oregon Language, Literacy, and Culture Institute
Alejandra Favela (Lewis & Clark College) & Sara Expósito (Lewis & Clark College)

Discussant: Deneese L. Jones (Longwood University) jonesdl@longwood.edu

Visual Ethnography and Identity in an Outreach Program for Children of Migrant Workers
Sandra S. Andrews (Arizona State University), Zeynep Killic (Arizona State University), Samuel DiGangi (Arizona State University), Angel Kay Jannasch-Pennell (Arizona State University), Yadira Flores (Arizona State University), Sanford J. Cohn (Arizona State University), Chong Ho Yu (Arizona State University), & Luke Dorsett (Arizona State University)

Discussant: Carol V. Lloyd (University of Nebraska - Omaha) clloyd@mail.unomaha.edu

Achieving Educational Justice by Transforming Our South African Township Into a Site for Higher Education
Jean E. McNiff (St. Mary's University College), Sundays Blayi (Bulumko School/St. Mary's University College), Tsepo Jeremiah Majake (Bulumko Senior Secondary School), & Gerhardus Adams (Bulumko School/St. Mary's University College)

Discussant: Benji Chang (University of California - Los Angeles) benjichang@gmail.com

Making Changes in the World: Student Teachers, Social Justice, and Evidence of Practice
Audrey C. Rule (State University of New York – Oswego & Barbara Garii (State University of New York - Oswego)

Discussant: Brian W. Dotts (Indiana University - Southeast) bdotts@indiana.edu

Assessing College Students' Perceived Readiness for Social Action Engagement: A Conceptual Model for Classroom Research
Stephanie Burrell (University of Massachusetts)

Discussant: Kevin J. Graziano (Nevada State College) kevin_graziano@nsc.nevada.edu

Five Tools for Critical Deliberation About Interpersonal and Social Conflict
Angela Bermudez (Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Discussant: Greg S. Goodman (Clarion University of Pennsylvania) greggoodman@adelphia.net

Challenging Deficit Views in Teacher Education: Uncovering Classism, Linguicism, and Racism in Ruby Payne’s Framework

Type: Symposium 2
Time: Tuesday, April 10, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Place: Marriott Chicago Downtown, Halsted, Fourth Floor

Session Participants

Organizer: Theresa Montano (California State University - Northridge) theresa.montano@csun.edu

Discussant: Susan M. Books (State University of New York - New Paltz) bookss@matrix.newpaltz.edu

Neocolonial Representations of the Other in Ruby Payne’s "A Framework for Understanding Poverty"
Roberta A. Ahlquist (San José State University)

Critique of a Framework for Understanding Poverty and the Teaching of Linguistically Diverse Students
Theresa Montano (California State University - Northridge), *Rosalinda Quintanar (San José State University)

Savage Unrealities: Uncovering Classism in Ruby Payne’s Framework
Paul Cameron Gorski (Hamline University)

Cultural Deficit Theory as Common Sense: The Power of the Unconscious
Ann Berlak (San Francisco State University)

Race and Racism in Ruby Payne’s "A Framework for Understanding Poverty"
Virginia M. Lea (Sonoma State University), *Erma Jean Sims (Sonoma State University)

Nothing Exists in Isolation: Education and Social Justice Out(In)side the Classroom

Type: Paper Session 2
Time: Wednesday, April 11, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
Place: Marriott Chicago Downtown, Michigan, Sixth Floor

Session Participants

Organizer: Nana Osei-Kofi (Iowa State University) oseikofi@iastate.edu

Chair: Mary E. Curran (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) mcurran@rci.rutgers.edu

Discussant: Gustavo E. Fischman (Arizona State University) fischman@asu.edu

Constructing the Pipeline to Prison: Unpacking Teaching Practices in Light of Increasing Numbers of Boys of Color in Juvenile Detention
Kathryn G. Herr (Montclair State University)

(Un)Safe Geographies of Place: Black Women's Learning in Global Environmental Justice Struggles
Tuere Bowles (North Carolina State University)

The Evidence of Social Justice: New Notions of Quality in Urban Schools
Diane Gayda Corrigan (Cleveland State University), *Kristien Marquez-Zenkov (Cleveland State University)

The Time Is Now: Future Directions for Social Justice in Education

Type: Paper Session 3
Time: Wednesday, April 11, 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
Place: Marriott Chicago Downtown, Halsted, Fourth Floor

Session Participants

Organizer: Nana Osei-Kofi (Iowa State University) oseikofi@iastate.edu

Chair: Tonya Bartell (University of Delaware) tbartell@udel.edu

Discussant: Suzanne SooHoo (Chapman University) soohoo@chapman.edu

Acting on Dangerous Truths: Notes for Specific Parrhesiastic Educators
M. Francyne Huckaby (Texas Christian University)

Critical Pedagogy and Anarchism: Connections and Possibilities
Marc Pruyn (New Mexico State University), Robert Howard Haworth (New Mexico State University)

Where’s the Leadership for Social Change? Learning Deliberative and Socially Just Praxis
Robert A. Filback (University of Southern California), *Michael C. Silverman (University of California - Los Angeles)

Resistance to Social Justice Activism in the United States and Canada
Darren E. Lund (University of Calgary)

Critical Issues in Education: Educating for Social Justice

Type: Paper Discussion (formerly known as Roundtables) 2
Time: Thursday, April 12, 12:25 p.m. - 1:05 p.m.
Place: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Grand Ballroom, Sections C-D North, East Tower - Gold Level

Session Participants

Organizer: Yuriko C. Wellington (University of Hawai'i - Manoa) ywelling@hawaii.edu

Chair: Sally O. Thomas (Chapman University) sthomas@chapman.edu

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Era of No Child Left Behind
Lee W. Digiovanni (Georgia College and State University) & Lorraine Gilpin (Georgia Southern University)

Discussant: Patricia H. Hinchey (Pennsylvania State University) pxh12@psu.edu

Critiquing Our Cultural Identity: Critical Reflections of Preservice Middle Childhood Teachers
Edric Johnson (University of Wisconsin - Whitewater)

Discussant: Alberto M. Ochoa (San Diego State University) aochoa@mail.sdsu.edu

No Excuses: A Democratic Critique of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP)
Brian Lack (Georgia State University)

Discussant: Eric H. Gutstein (University of Illinois - Chicago) gutstein@uic.edu

Opening Eyes: Preparing Teachers to Teach for Social Justice
Christine L. Canning (University of Northern Iowa), Linda M. Fitzgerald (University of Northern Iowa), Catherine M. Miller (University of Northern Iowa), & Jennifer Johnson (Augustana College)

Discussant: Thomas G. Nelson (University of The Pacific) tnelson@pacific.edu

An Anticolonial Critique of the Race/Class Debate
Arlo Kempf (OISE/University of Toronto)

Discussant: Virginia M. Lea (Sonoma State University) virginialea@earthlink.net

Bringin’ It to the Table: Student Involvement in the WideNet Research Project
Dawn M. Evans (University of Rochester), Nancy M. Ares (University of Rochester), & Peggy Postell (University of Rochester)

Discussant: Desmond I. Odugu (Loyola University - Chicago) dodugu@luc.edu

Critical Encounters and Missed Opportunities in Cyberspace: Preparing Beginning English Teachers to Facilitate Critical Dialogue
Susan L. Groenke (The University of Tennesee - Knoxville), Joellen Maples (University of Tennessee - Knoxville), Trena M. Paulus (The University of Tennesee - Knoxville)

Discussant: Kenneth James Fasching-Varner (Ohio State University) varner.44@osu.edu

Havens of Hope or the Killing Fields: Educational Prospects and Problems in an Urban Middle School
Floyd D. Beachum (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee), Audrey M. Dentith (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee), Carlos Raphael McCray (Georgia State University), & Tina Marie Boyle (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)

Discussant: Valerie Polakow (Eastern Michigan University) vpolakow@emich.edu

Working to Transform Education: Grassroots Activists and Academics' Dialogue

Type: Invited Session
Time: Friday, April 13, 2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Place: Marriott Chicago Downtown, Los Angeles, Fifth Floor

Session Participants

Organizer: Nana Osei-Kofi (Iowa State University) oseikofi@iastate.edu

Discussant: Antonia Darder (University of Illinois) adarder@uiuc.edu

Participant: Patricia Buenrostro (University of Illinois - Chicago) pbuenr1@uic.edu

Participant: John D. Holst (University of St. Thomas) jdholst@stthomas.edu

Participant: Liz Monge (Young Women's Leadership Charter School, Chicago) emonge@ywlcs.org

Participant: William H. Watkins (University of Illinois - Chicago) wwatkins@uic.edu

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