Community as campus: Redefining educational ‘problems’ and reimagining radical possibilities
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 11:00am
ZEB - Ziff Education Building, 150
11200 SW 8th ST, Ziff Education Building, Miami, Florida 33199
Community as campus: Redefining educational ‘problems’ and reimagining radical possibilities
Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University
Co-sponsored by School of Education and Human Development
11AM, ZEB 150
This presentation points to exciting possibilities that emerge when we approach marginalized communities not as educationally deficient, but rather as dynamic learning contexts that unsettle conventional assumptions about knowledge, skills, and schooling. It analyzes case studies that highlight the deceptive nature of widely circulated educational categories such as “at-risk youth,” “English Learners,” and “(under)achievement.” Beyond simply critiquing these labels, the presentation points to the transformative potential of a community as a campus model that takes seriously the vast challenges that hinder normatively defined academic success and the infinite, profound educational opportunities that exist within all marginalized contexts.
Esta presentación destaca emocionantes posibilidades que surgen cuando nos enfocamos en comunidades marginadas, no como educativamente deficientes, sino como contextos de aprendizaje dinámico que cuestionan las suposiciones convencionales sobre conocimiento, habilidades y enseñanza. Analiza casos de estudio que resaltan la naturaleza engañosa de categorías ampliamente difundidas tales como “jóvenes en riesgo”, “aprendices del inglés” y “(deficientes de) logros”. Más allá de simplemente criticar estas etiquetas, la presentación destaca el potencial de transformación de una comunidad como un modelo de campus que toma seriamente los enormes retos que obstaculizan el éxito académico definido normativamente y las infinitas y exhaustivas oportunidades que existen dentro de todos los contextos marginados.
Jonathan Rosa is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, at Stanford University. His research analyzes the interplay between racial marginalization, linguistic stigmatization, and educational inequity. Dr. Rosa collaborates with schools and communities to track these phenomena and develop tools for understanding and eradicating the forms of disparity to which they correspond. He is author of the book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (2019, Oxford University Press) and co-editor of the volume Language and Social Justice in Practice (2019, Routledge). Dr. Rosa’s research has appeared in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, American Ethnologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Language in Society, as well as media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in Linguistics and Educational Studies from Swarthmore College.
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