Emancipatory Education Now is a new student-led initiative at the SJSU Lurie College of Education that examines what emancipatory education – the critical evaluation of the systems and structures of oppression that maintain the status quo in our educational institutions – looks like in today’s society and advocates for the expansion of emancipatory education research, policies, and practices.  In this episode, Gabi leads a dialogue with Anne, Jackie, Leslye, and Vinson as they dive deeper into the topic of ethnic studies and how the implementation of ethnic studies in education is empowering, engaging, and beneficial for all students.

The call to action for this episode: Reflect on and discuss a time from your K-12 experience where you learned a view of history that you later learned was untrue or didn’t portray the full story!

A few additional resources they mention include:

• Terisa Siagatonu “Ethnic Studies“ – ALL DEF POETRY
• “The Student Strike That Changed Higher Ed Forever” by Karen Grigsby Gates and Sheeren Marisol Meraji on NPR
• California Assembly Bill 1460
• California Assembly Bill 331
• “Stanford study suggests academic benefits to ethnic studies courses” by Brooke Donald on Stanford.edu
• The Kenneth and Mamie Clark Doll Experiments
• “The Ongoing Battle Over Ethnic Studies” by Melinda Anderson on the Atlantic
• “The Long, Bloody Strike for Ethnic Studies” by NPR
• Code Switch by NPR
• The Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing Within and Beyond the Academy edited by Olivia Perlow, Durene Wheeler, Sharon Bethea, and BarBara Scott
• The VS Podcast: “Michael Lee vs. Grief”
• Angela Davis on Spotify
• The Radiolab Podcast: “The Miseducation of Larry P”
• Rethinking Ethnic Studies edited by R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, and Wayne Au

Join us live for the next episode on Monday, October 5, at 7:15pm on the Lurie College YouTube channel at bit.ly/lurie-youtube.  

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