Working Towards Racial Justice and Educational Equity

In her talk “Working Towards Racial Justice and Educational Equity Through Youth Engaged, Justice-Oriented Literacy and Learning,” Keisha L. Green revisits one of bell hook’s influential texts—Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom—as a way to (re)connect and (re)commit to a justice-oriented, community-based, and youth-engaged liberatory project of teaching and learning in the context of today’s political climate and culture wars.

In doing so, Green explores pathways and possibilities for literacy-rich and multi-modal liberal arts based education.

About Keisha L. Green

Keisha Green is Associate Professor of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is a community-engaged scholar and critical teacher educator with research interests in English Education, youth literacy practices, critical literacy, and critical pedagogy.

Green is published in journals including International Journal for Qualitative Studies; Equity  and Excellence in Education; Race, Ethnicity, and Education; and Educational Forum. She has authored chapters in edited volumes including Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities and Youth Voices, Public Spaces, and Civic Engagement.

A Syracuse Symposium 2024-2025 event.

Presented by the Syracuse University School of Education’s Harry S. and Elva K. Ganders Memorial Fund Lecture. Co-sponsored by Syracuse University Humanities Center.