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THEMATIC

CFP 63 - Thematic: Colonization, Inequality, and the Changing Classroom
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Sponsor: Teaching Social Problems

Organizers: Morena Tartari, Northumbria University
Laurie J. Linhart, Des Moines Area Community College

Presider: Laurie J. Linhart, Des Moines Area Community College

Description: 

This session examines how educational institutions and classroom practices are shaped by broader structures of inequality and power. While traditional discussions of colonization in education focus on historical and epistemic domination, the papers in this session extend the concept to examine multiple expressions of structural inequality in education – from racialization and spatial segregation in schooling to policy reforms that structurally exclude adult learners and the growing influence of artificial intelligence in the classroom. At the same time, several contributions explore pedagogical strategies aimed at fostering more ethical, supportive, and critically engaged learning environments. Together these papers illuminate the dialectic between educational systems that reproduce social problems and the pedagogical practices that work to disrupt them.

Papers:

“Local School Zoning as a Spatialized Form of Social Reproduction,” Karen Manges Douglas and Rin Ferraro, Sam Houston State University

“The Straining of Comprehensive Student Support in Scottish Further Education: A Primary Barrier to Retention under Austerity,” Ema Inoue, Osaka University of Economics

“Mind the Gap: A Critical Analysis of the Relationship between Racialization, Poor Mental Health, and Academic Performance in K-12,” Taylor J. Hall, Wilkes University

“The Impact of Timing of Expanded Adverse Childhood Experience Exposure on Academic Performance in a Sample of Child Protective Service–Involved Youth,” Rashad Freeman, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington

“The Art of Gentle Teaching: Establishing Rigorous Learning Environments with Care and Compassion,” Stephanie M. Baran, Xavier University of Louisiana

“The Colonization of Our Lifeworld (the Classroom),” Gillian Niebrugge Brantley and Patricia Lengermann, The George Washington University

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