2011 SIG BUSINESS MEETING
Saturday, April 9, 7-9pm
Sheraton, Grand Ballroom A
7-7:15:
Officer Updates &
Introduction of New Officers
7:15-7:35
Awards Ceremony
Distinguished
Scholar-Activist – Dr. Kristen Buras, Emory University
Community Advocacy – Dr.
Cynthia Bejarano, New Mexico State University
Distinguished
Dissertation – Dr. Debbie Sonu, Hunter College SUNY
7:35-8:15
Keynote
Address
Pedro Noguera
Second Annual
Mentoring Social
Saturday, April 9, 6:15-7pm:
Before the SIG Business Meeting
Sheraton, Grand Ballroom A
Invited Session: SPACES STILL
AVAILABLE
MENTORS:
JoBeth Allen, University of
Georgia
Marta Baltodano, Loyola Marymount University
Patricia Calderwood, Fairfield University
Gustavo Fischman, Arizona State University
Ruben Garza, Texas State
University
Althier Lazar, Saint Joseph's
University
Pedro Noguera, New York University
Alberto Ochoa, San Diego State University
Will Perez, Claremont Graduate
University
Contact Margarita Jimenez-Silva to
apply to be a mentor or to attend as a mentee. Mentees will have an opportunity to meet with the mentors in an
informal setting. Margarita.Jimenez-Silva@asu.edu
Graduate Student Forum
Friday, April 8, 2011 – 8am –
12pm
JW Marriot, St. Jerome
Invited Session
PANELISTS:
Bill Ayers, University of Illinois at
Chicago
Kristen Buras, Emory University
Gustavo Fischman, Arizona State University
Paul Gorski, George Mason University
Rafael Lara-Alecio, Texas A&M
Connie North, University of
Maryland-College Park
Carlos Ovando, Arizona State University
Critical
Educators for Social Justice
Community-Based
Events
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Friday, April 8, 6-8pm
Community Book Center
2523 Bayou Rd, New Orleans
(10 minutes taxi ride)
Teaching
“Where Ya At”: Historians, Artists, and Veteran Teachers Talk about Making
Local Culture and Consciousness Matter in the Curriculum
Participants:
Joyce Marie Jackson,
Cultural Anthropologist, Louisiana State University
Kalamu ya Salaam,
Poet-Producer-Teacher with Students at the Center
Ned Sublette, Musical and Popular
Historian
Cherise Harrison Nelson,
Veteran Teacher-Guardians of the Flame
Louise Mouton Johnson,
Veteran Teacher-Visual Artist
Gregg Stafford, Veteran
Teacher-Brass Band Member
Discussants: Joyce King,
Kristen Buras, Adrienne Dixson
SIG Remarks: Jenice View,
SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice and TBA, Division K
Co-Sponsors:
Division K-Teaching and teacher Education, SIG-Critical Educators for Social
Justice, and Community Book Center
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Saturday, April 9, 6-8pm
United Teachers of New Orleans
4718 Paris Avenue, Oak Park
Shopping Center, New Orleans
(10 minutes taxi ride)
"It's
All about the Dollars": School Reform and the Assault on New Orleans
Public Schools and Teachers Union
Participants:
Visit
Leader: Howard Stevenson
Veteran
Teachers and Leaders from United Teachers of New Orleans, including Larry
Carter, Jim Randels, Anthony Hart, Katrena Jackson-Ndang, Valerie Prier, and
Wanda Richard
Discussants:
Michael Apple and Kristen Buras
SIG
Remarks: Howard Stevenson, SIG-Teacher’s Work/Teachers Unions and Antonia
Darder, SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice
Co-Sponsors:
SIG-Teacher’s Work/ Teachers Unions and SIG-Critical Educators for Social
Justice
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Sunday, April 10,
12:30-2:30pm
Deanie’s Seafood Restaurant
(5 minute walk from
conference)
Urban
South Grassroots Research Collective
Annual
Quarterly Meeting:
“Defending
Public Schools in the Deep South Through Bottom-Up Organizing and Critical
Research”
Critical
scholars and grassroots educational activists will gather to discuss ongoing
projects centered on educational reform in New Orleans and build new
alliances with concerned researchers across the nation. A description of
USGRC is included in the attachment above.
In
support of this initiative, SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice is
sponsoring USGRC's quarterly meeting. Fifteen (15) SIG members with a clear
and compelling interest in supporting the Collective's efforts, and possibly
joining as research partners, will attend the luncheon.
To
be considered for participation in the upcoming luncheon, please complete the
attached form and email the form no later than March 18 to Kristen Buras,
USGRC co-founder and director, at kburas@emory.edu
Entitle
the email subject line USGRC Lunch-Last Name. Participants will be notified
by March 20 to plan for attendance.
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CESJ
SPONSORED PAPER, SYMPOSIA, ROUNDTABLE, and POSTER SESSIONS
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Critical Examination of Social Justice in Teacher Education
Sat, Apr 9 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm - Sheraton, Rhythms Ballroom II
-Positioning
Matters: A Study of Two Preservice Language Arts Teachers’ Attempts to Enact
Culturally Responsive Practice in the Figured World of Schools, Jane Marie
Saunders (Texas State University, San Marcos)
-Putting Critical
Pedagogy into Practice: Critical Racial Consciousness for Preservice Teacher
Education, Cynthia Gordon (Harvard University)
-Teacher
Activists: Blurring the Lines and Building the Collective, Keith C. Catone (Harvard
University)
-Understanding the
Meaning of Social Justice in Australia, Hernan Cuervo (The University of
Melbourne)
-Women of Color
Practicing Radical Pedagogy in Predominantly White Classrooms, Dalia Rodriguez
(Syracuse University), Afua Boahene (Syracuse University), Juliann T. Anesi
(Syracuse University), Nicole Chantelle Howell (Syracuse University)
Chair:
Denise
Egea-Kuehne (Louisiana State University)
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Marginalized Voices: Working Toward Resistance and Social
Justice
Tue, Apr 12 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm - Sheraton, Napoleon
Ballroom B1
-Blinded by the
(White) Light: A Critical Examination of Whiteness in the Context of Urban
Aboriginal Education, Brooke Costello (Lakehead University), Mark Roderick
Higgins (Lakehead University)
-Ghetto Rules:
The Culture of Poverty Reloaded, Monique Rise Redeaux (University of
Illinois, Chicago)
-New Voices in
the Old South: Latino Immigrant Students’ Experiences at One Georgia Middle
School, Lucy Bush (Mercer University)
-The Fallacy of
Repossessing the Dispossessed: Citizenship Education With Incarcerated Youth,
Debbie Sonu (Hunter College-CUNY)
-Vice Provost
Initiative for Pre-College (VIP) Scholars: A Program for Resistance Through
Libratory Curriculum, Neshemath Keetin (University of California-Los
Angeles), Jonli Tunstall (University of California-Los Angeles)
Chair: Rosemary A.
Blanchard (California State University-Sacramento)
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Uncovering the Complexities of Space, Race, and Praxis in Social
Justice Education
Sun, Apr 10 - 10:35am - 12:05pm - Sheraton, Rhythms Ballroom I
-A
Multi-Institutional Assessment Linking Student Involvement to Increased
Presence of Faculty of Color on Campus, Matt Mayhew (New York University),
Kamilah Briscoe (New York University), Chera D. Reid (New York University)
-Democracy Through
Photography, Cynthia (Cindy) A. Fisher (Shawneee Mission School District)
-Learning Civic
Engagement Through the Visual Arts in Youth After-School Programs, Marit
Dewhurst (Museum of Modern Art), Dipti Desai (New York University)
-Learning Cycles
and the Challenge of Educating for Social Justice, Fernando Naiditch (Montclair
State University)
-Reaching for the
Open: An Examination of Borderlands and Third Spaces in Educational Contexts,
Candace M. Thompson (University of North Carolina – Wilmington), Sheri Carmel
Hardee (University of South Carolina), Louise B. Jennings (Colorado State
University)
Chair: Debra A.
Pellegrino (University of Scranton)
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Working Toward Social Justice Praxis in K-12 Classrooms
Sat, Apr 9 - 8:15am - 9:45am - Sheraton, Rhythms Ballroom II
-Classroom
Social Justice: The Impact of Inequitable Classroom Practices on Student
Conduct, Duane E. Thomas (University of Pennsylvania), Malik Muhammad
(Parkway Academy), Celine Thompson (University of Pennsylvania), Hasan Amenra
(University of Pennsylvania)
-Dusting for
Fingerprints: Revealing Underpinning Hegemony Within an Elementary Education
Program’s Articulated Diversity Transformation, Patricia L. Bullock (Kennesaw
State University), Karthigeyan Subramaniam (University of North Texas), Lisa
Cabulong Buenaventura (The Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg), Incho
Lee (The Pennsylvania State University)
-I Gonna Lock It
Down! Reflections on School Violence and Resistance, Patricio R. Ortiz (Utah
State University)
-Moving Towards
a Transformative, Race Conscious English Classroom, (Meredith DeCosta-Smith
(Arizona State University)
-Teachers,
Please Learn Our Names! Racial Micro-Aggressions and the K-12 Classroom, Rita
Kohli (Santa Clara University), Daniel Gilbert Solorzano (University of
California – Los Angeles)
Chair:
Noelle
Witherspoon Arnold (University of Missouri – Columbia)
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Trajectories and Persistence in Science for Underrepresented and
Minority Students
Mon, Apr 11 - 8:15am - 10:15am - Hotel Monteleone, Iberville
Co-Sponsored Session: Division C – Learning and Instruction,
Section 4: Science, SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and
Gender in Education; SIG-Science Teaching and Learning; SIG-Critical Educators
for Social Justice
-Science Identity
Performance and Long-Term Persistence in Science: Connecting Identity to Social
Justice, Angela Johnson (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)
-Altruism as an
Entry Point: An Examination of African American Students’ Science Trajectories,
Julie Lynn Haun-Frank (Old Dominion University)
-Urban Girls’
Identity Trajectories through the Participation Between Figured Worlds, Hosun
Kang (Michigan State University), Angela Calabrese Barton (Michigan State
University), Edna Tan (Michigan State University), Juanita Beatriz Bautista
Guerra (Michigan State University)
-What Influence
Does a Science Research Experiment Have on Minority Student Participation in
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields? Stephanie
Danette Preston (The Pennsylvania State University)
-Troubling
Monolithic Views of Privilege: Longitudinal Case Studies of Four Scientifically
Talented Boys, Angela W. Webb (University of North Carolina – Greensboro),
Heidi Carlone (University of North Carolina – Greensboro), Mandy O. Taylor
(University of North Carolina – Greensboro)
Chair:
Felicia
Moore Mensah (Teacher’s College, Columbia University)
Measuring the Right to Education: Possibilities and Challenges
Mon, Apr 11 - 10:35am - 12:05pm - Sheraton, Rhythms Ballroom
II
-The
Right to Education Project: An Evaluation of Rights-Based Approaches to
Education, Angela Melchiorre (Right to Education Project)
-The
Politics of Rights-Based Legislation for Education: A Civil Society Perspective
on the 2009 Indian Right to Education Bill, Nisha Thapliyal (Colgate
University)
-Education
Rights Advocacy in South Africa: The Possibilities and Challenges for
Researching the Right to Education With Refugees and Forced Migrants, Carol
Anne Marie Spreen (University of Virginia), Salim Vally (University of
Johannesburg)
-The
Rights-Based Approach to Adult Education in Tanzania, Ian Robert Georges
Macpherson (University of Oxford)
Chair:
Salim
Vally (University of Johannesburg)
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Off the Beaten Path: Social Justice Teaching in Uncommon
Contexts
Mon, Apr 11 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm - Sheraton, Rhythms Ballroom
II
Discussant:
Wayne
Au (University of Washington – Bothell)
-Guild,
Gratitude, Empathy, and Engagement: Social Justice Education With Affluent
Youth, Katy Swalwell (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
-Taking
a Social and Political view of Mathematics in Content Courses for Preservice
K-8 Teacher, Mathew Felton (The University of Arizona
-Square
Peg and Round Hole? A Conceptual Mapping of Social Justice Science Education,
Alexandra Dimick (University of Wisconsin)
-Don’t
I know You? A Misstep in Teaching for Social Justice in a Rural School, Joel
Amidon (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Chair:
Courtney
Koestler (The University of Arizona)
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The Blame Game and the Deficit Paradox
Tue, Apr 12 - 8:15am - 9:45am - Sheraton, Oakley
-The
Historical Normalizing of Racist, Deficit Discourses and Problem-Posing
Interventions, Virginia M. Lea (University of Wisconsin – Stout)
-A
Discourse-Analytic Perspective on Deficit Discourses and Problem-Posing
Interventions, Sarah Michaels (Clark University)
-Responding
to Deficit Ideologies in Assessment: Toward Critical Interpretation by Teachers
of Second Language Learners, Theresa Y. Austin (University of Massachusetts –
Amherst)
-Poverty,
Class, and the Nature of Deficit Ideology in U.S. Schooling, Paul Cameron
Gorski (George Mason University)
-The
Making of Disability in the Free Markey, Curt Dudley-Marling (Boston College)
-The
Unmaksing of Hurtful Dominant Ideologies: Preparing Language Teachers to
Interrogate Deficit Views of English Language Learners, Lilia I. Barolome
(University of Massachusetts – Boston)
Chair:
Paul
Cameron Gorski (George Mason University)
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Where Theory Meets Practice: Sociopolitical Development,
Academic Interventions, and Urban Youth
Tue, Apr 12 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm - Sheraton, Southdown
Discussant:
Nicole
Mirra (University of California – Los Angeles)
-Using
Socio-Political Development Theory (SPD) to Create a Critical Civics
Curriculum, Ebony Cheiree Cain (University of California – Los Angeles)
-African
American Youth Sociopolitical Development: Moving From Critical Consciousness
to Critical Action, Jonli Tunstall (University of California – Los Angeles)
-Sociopolitical
Development (SPD) in African American Male Youth, D’Artagnan Scorza
(University of California – Los Angeles)
Chair: Robert Cooper
(University of California – Los Angeles)
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Approaching Social
Justice Praxis: Investigating Teacher Perspectives Length
of Session
Sat, Apr 9 - 2:15pm -
3:45pm - Sheraton, Grand Ballroom D
-A
Moral Reflection on Special Education, Bernardo E. Pohl (University of Houston)
-The
Social Construction of Critical Literacy in elementary Teacher Education,
Patricia E. Calderwood (Fairfield University)
-Thoughts
Regarding Creative Maladjustment Shaping Practices in Teacher Preparation:
Reflection on Learning Disability (LD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and
Emotional Behavioral Disorder (EBD), Amy Papacek (Arizona State University),
David Isaac Hernandez-Saca (Arizona State University)
Chair: Isaura Betzabe Pulibo (Illinois
State University)
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Challenging the Norm: Curriculum, Teacher Resistance, and
Special Education
Fri, Apr 8 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm - Sheraton, Grand Ballroom A
-Social Justice
and Diversity in Connecticut Public Schools, Ellen M. Retelle (Central
Connecticut State University)
-The Missing
Modes of Language Arts: Using Critical Literacy to Enact a Comprehensive
English Language Arts (ELA) Program, Delane Ann Bender-Slack (Xavier
University), Teresa Young (Xavier University)
-“I Feel Like a
Second-Class Citizen”: A Case Study of School Choice, School Culture, and
Social Justice, Darren E. Lund (University of Calgary), David A. Ball,
(Calgary Board of Education)
Chair:
Sidonia
Jessie Alenuma-Nimoh (Gustavus Adolphus College)
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Critical Examination of Intersectionalities in Social Justice
Education
Sat, Apr 9 - 10:35am - 12:05pm - Sheraton, Grand Ballroom D
-Bridging the
Binaries of Female/Male, Brown/White, Muslim-Born/Covert, and the Development
of a Culturally Responsive Research Methodology, Dina M. Eletreby (Chapman
University)
-The Power of the
Artifact: The Effect of Standardized Education on Social Justice Teaching,
Connie Lynn White (California State University-Northridge), Geraldine Suzanne
Van De Kleut (Brock University)
Using a Social
Justice Service-Learning Field Experience to Strengthen the Argument for Social
Foundations Coursework, Barri E. Tinkler (University of Vermont), C. Lynne
Hannah (Shepherd University), Elizabeth Miller (Independent Scholar)
Chair:
Christopher
B. Knaus (California State University – East Bay)
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Critical Examinations of Personal Experiences
Fri, Apr 8 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm - Sheraton, Grand Ballroom D
-On
Spirituality and Social Justice, Sheryl Conrad Cozart (George Mason
University), Gretchen Givens Generett (Duquesne University)
-Silence
No More: A transformative Transcendental Phenomenology of the Teen Mothers’
Collegiate Experiences in the Rural Southeast, Angela M. Rogers (University
of South Florida)
-The
Internal Power of Chicana/Latina Students, Marisol Oriana Ruiz (New Mexico
State University), Lilia Chavez (University of San Francisco)
Chair:
Amy
Denis Mulholland (University of Houston)
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Reflexive Activism:
Challenges of Mentoring Preservice Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically
Diverse Students
Sun, Apr 10 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm - Sheraton, Grand Ballroom D
-Learning to Carry
the Message of Critical Liberatory Pedagogy: Preservice Teachers as
Messenger-Activists, Anita Bright (George Mason University)
-Living With the
Liminal: Unwieldy Unknowns of Facilitating an Urban Education Cohort, G. Sue
Kasun (University of Texas)
-“Oh, I Guess What
You Teach Us Can Work”: Socratic Episodes and Activist Pedagogy with Preservice
Teachers, LaGarrett Jarriel King (University of Texas – Austin)
-Systemic
Contradictions in Preservice Teacher Education, Elizabeth Almond Bellows (University
of Texas)
-Bilingual/Bicultural
Preservice Teachers Overcoming and Resisting Difference, Maria-Antonieta Avila
(University of Texas – Austin)
Chair: Luis Urrieta
(University of Texas – Austin)
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Reimagining Critical Hope: Situated Perspectives Across
North-South Contexts
Sun, Apr 10 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm - Sheraton, Grand Ballroom D
-Liberation
Education, Hope, and Despair in the Struggle Against Racism, Ronald D. Glass
(University of California – Santa Cruz)
-Is
There Anything Wrong with Narrative of Hope in Teacher Education? Gustavo E.
Fischman (Arizona State University)
-From
Critical Hope and Utopian Vision to Transforming Praxis, Graham H. Smith (Te
Whare Wananga o Awaniarangi)
-A
Pedagogy of Hope in South African Higher Education? Vivienne Grace Bozalek
(University of Western Cape), Brenda Lana Leibowitz (Stellenbosch
University), Ronelle L. Carolissen (University of Stellenbosch)
Chair:
Megan
Boler (University of Toronto)
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Teacher Education for
the Public Good: Subverting Hyper-Accountability and Deficit Discourse in
Social
Justice Teacher Education
Mon,
Apr 11 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm - Sheraton, Grand Ballroom A
-Why Aren’t We
More Enraged? We Need More Than a Civil Rights Movement to Interrupt the
Historical Normalizing of Deficit Discourses, Virginia M. Lea (University of
Wisconsin – Stout)
-Poverty and the
Scornful Gaze: The Reproduction of Class-Based Deficit Ideology in Schooling,
Paul Cameron Gorski (George Mason University)
-Teacher
Performance Assessment in the Audit Society, Ann Berlak (San Francisco State
University)
-The “Empire”
Strikes Back via Neoliberal Tactics: Confronting the Legacies of
Neocolonialism, Roberta Ahlquist (San José State University)
Chair: Theresa Montano
(California State University – Northridge)
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What Next for Education for Social Justice?
Tue, Apr 12 - 10:35am - 12:05pm - Sheraton, Grand Ballroom A
-Against the
Grain: Rethinking Pedagogy Through a Politics of Infiltration, Joshua D. Diem
(University of Miami), Abraham Paul Deleon (University of Texas – San Antonio)
-Linking
Internationalization and Social Justice Initiatives for the Local and Global
Public Good, David Schwarzer (Montclair State University), Mary E. Curran
(Rutgers University)
-The Future of
Diversity Work in Education, Christine Clark (University of Nevada – Las
Vegas), Mark Brimhall (University of Maryland – College Park), Kenneth James
Fasching-Varner (Edgewood College)
Chair:
Eric
J. Demeulenaere (Clark University)
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Critical Educators for Social SIG Justice Poster Session (Poster
Session 17)
Mon, Apr 11 - 4:05pm - 5:35pm - Sheraton, Grand Ballroom C
-Narrative
Portraits of Who is Teaching teachers About Diversity and Multicultural
Education, Vera Stenhouse (Georgia State University)
-Photography and
Oral History as a Means of Chronicling the Homeless in Miami, Eugene F.
Provenzo (University of Miami), Alain Bengochea (University of Miami), Kristen
Doorn, Ryan W. Pontier (University of Miami), Sabrina Francesca Sembiante
(University of Miami)
-Whiteness at
Work: White Elementarzy Teachers in Predominantly White Contexts, Kimberly A.
Heuschkel (Rutgers University)
-“Bury Guns Not
People”: A Case Study of the African American Achievers Youth Corps,
Incorporated, Chalmer Elaine Fredericka Thompson (Indiana University/Purdue
University at Indianapolis), Mmoja Ajabu (African American Male Equity Project)