WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
This pre-conference workshop offers opportunities to critically examine how theory and research can push the boundaries to centrally integrate transformative agendas premised on ideals of equality and social justice. Taking on and expanding upon Vygotsky’s passionate commitment to equality, the directions to be examined are focused on inserting activism into the key considerations about human development and education at the intersection of theory, methodology, research, and practice. This opens up the space for dialogue and collaboration among cultural-historical, sociocultural, and activity scholarship on the one hand, and critical approaches in ethnography, pedagogy, work studies, and Critical Race Theory, on the other. The notions of objectivity, validity, warrants for knowledge, and researchers’ standpoints, as these can be premised on non-neutral ideals of equality and justice, will be explored. The overarching goal is to discuss how to move forward in conducting research that takes on an active role in the world in turmoil and crisis where neutrality is not an option.
The presenters are international scholars whose research spans various disciplines and places transformative agendas of equality and justice at the forefront. The workshop will provide a solid background and supporting materials in an interactive forum.
Sub Sessions
- Introductions
- Moderator Dr. Anna Stetsenko (The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) (New York, NY, United States)) | Moderator Dr. Eduardo Vianna (LaGuardia Community College- City University of New York (CUNY))
- 10 minutes | 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Activity in a Preconference Workshop
- To practice justice: education research in the age of mass incarceration
- Participant Dr. Maisha Winn (University of California, Davis)
- 40 minutes | 9:10 AM - 9:50 AM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Presentation in a Preconference Workshop
- Theory and research as social practice of realizing equality: implications from a transformative activist stance
- Participant Dr. Anna Stetsenko (The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) (New York, NY, United States))
- 40 minutes | 9:50 AM -10:30 AM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Presentation in a Preconference Workshop
- Coffee on your own
- 20 minutes | 10:30 AM -10:50 AM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Break
- Expanding equity among historically underrepresented students through critical-theoretical teaching-learning
- Participant Dr. Eduardo Vianna (LaGuardia Community College- City University of New York (CUNY))
- 40 minutes | 10:50 AM -11:30 AM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Presentation in a Preconference Workshop
- Discussion
- 30 minutes | 11:30 AM -12:00 PM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Activity in a Preconference Workshop
- Lunch
- 1 hour | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Break
- Transformative practice - transformative research - from Marx and Gramsci to Vygotsky, Leontiev, Holzkamp, and contemporary directions
- Participant Dr. Ines Langemeyer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- 40 minutes | 1:00 PM - 1:40 PM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Presentation in a Preconference Workshop
- The role of a mind-in-political-economy approach to understanding social justice in activity
- Participant Dr. Peter Sawchuk (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - University of Toronto)
- 40 minutes | 1:40 PM - 2:20 PM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Presentation in a Preconference Workshop
- Coffee break
- 20 minutes | 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Break
- Panel featuring activist work in diverse communities and with diverse populations
- Participant Dr. Dušana Podlucká (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY) | Participant Dr. Azwihangwisi Muthivhi (University of Cape Town) | Participant Dr. Fernanda Liberali (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo) | Participant Dr. Michail Kontopodis (University of Sheffield) | Participant Ms. Naja Hougaard (Queensborough Community College)
- 2 hours 5 minutes | 2:40 PM - 4:45 PM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Presentation in a Preconference Workshop
- Summary and Discussion
- 15 minutes | 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Part of: WORKSHOP - Research with transformative agendas: increasing equality in education and beyond
- Activity in a Preconference Workshop