UC Links at AERA 2024

Scholars and partners from throughout the UC Links international network will be coming to Philadelphia, April 11-14, 2024 to participate in the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association(link is external)

Twelve UC Links programs will be presenting their work on Saturday (3:05-4:35pm) as part of the UC Links Structured Poster Session University-Community Engagement as a Strategy for Dismantling Racial Injustice and Co-Constructing Educational Possibilities(link is external). Come see us! 

Below are some examples of AERA posters and presentations by partners from throughout the UC Links network. This list is not exhaustive(link is external) - please let us know of other presentations that we may have missed!

We are looking forward to seeing many of you from around the world in Philadelphia this April! 

Thursday April 11, 2024

• Toward the Fulfillment of Full Personhood: The Persistent Invisibility of Latinx Communities Across Institutions and Educational Scholarship 3.0(link is external)— Kris D. Gutiérrez (University of California, Berkeley) [Chair]

• Getting Newcomer Youth “On The College Bus”: A Collaborative Effort To Increasing College Access(link is external) — Sophia L Angeles (Pennsylvania State University)

• Educational Differences in Parents’ Math Support Self-Efficacy and Relations to Adolescents’ Math Motivation: Conceptual Replications(link is external) — Sandra D. Simpkins (University of California, Irvine); Nestor Tulagan (University of Rochester)

• Math Identity and Cultural Historical Activity Theory: Storying Preservice Teachers’ Math Trajectories(link is external) —  Aria Razfar (University of Illinois at Chicago)

• Critical Sociotechnical Perspectives on Young People Using, Experiencing, and Making Sense of AI(link is external) — José Ramón Lizárraga (University of Colorado, Boulder) [co-chair]

• Embracing Everyday Fugitive Wellness: Knowledge and Transformation in Hip-Hop Learning Sanctuaries(link is external) — Kalonji L. Nzinga (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• Challenging Traditional Museum Facilitation Practices Through Practice-Based Facilitation Professional Development(link is external) — Danielle Boyd Harlow, Alexandria Muller (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Educational Partnerships as Collective Resistance: Perspectives From Emerging Scholars and Collaborators(link is external) — Alexandria Muller (University of California, Santa Barbara) [Chair]

Friday April 12, 2024

• Developing Justice Leaders: High Impact Strategies in Leadership Preparation(link is external)— Michelle Young (University of California, Berkeley)

• Scholarship that Befits a Democracy: Disrupting Educational Inequality through the Scholarship of Mike Rose(link is external) — Kris D. Gutiérrez [Chair & Discussant], Glynda A. Hull [Presenter] (University of California, Berkeley) 

• 10th Annual Language and Social Processes Mentoring Session(link is external) — Marjorie Elaine (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Family Ecosystem and it’s Relationship to Positive Adolescent Functioning(link is external) — Nestor Tulagan (University of Rochester) [Chair]

• Promoting Adolescent Social and Emotional Development During Out-of-School Time: A Systematic Review(link is external) — Rebecca S. Levine (University of California, San Diego)

• The "Invisible" Resonance: (Re)Imagining Writing for a "Just Present" in Local and Global Technoscapes(link is external) — Glynda A. Hull (University of California, Berkeley) [Discussant]

• Dreaming DEAI: Leadership Visions and Implementation Efforts of DEAI (Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusivity) Work in Science and Technology Centers(link is external) —  Alexandria Muller (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Past, Present, and Futures: Intentional Dreaming With Early-Career Researchers About Museum Education and Research(link is external) — Alexandria Muller (University of California, Santa Barbara) [Chair]

• Immigrant Youth’s (Re-)Imagining of Communal Well-Being Through Multivocal, Improvisational Storytelling(link is external) — Jackson Gzehoviak (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Prioritizing Educator Diversity Research: A Journey of Reflection, Insights, and New Possibilities(link is external) —  Travis Bristol (University of California, Berkeley) [Discussant]

Saturday April 13, 2024

• University-Community Engagement as a Strategy for Dismantling Racial Injustice and Co-Constructing Educational Possibilities(link is external)— Mara Mahmood, John Cano, Wesley Veiga (University of California, Berkeley)

• Remaking Exclusionary Definitions of Engineering and Design: Centering Minoritized Youth Assets in Maker Education(link is external) — Lee Martin & J.C Leapman, (University of California, Davis)

• A Community-Engaged Effort: Co-Constructing College Knowledge in a Multilingual Community(link is external) — Sophia L Angeles (Pennsylvania State University) & Marjorie Elaine (University of California, Los Angeles)

• College Mentors as Agents of Change in a Math University-Community Partnership Engaging Latinx Youth(link is external) — Alessandra Pantano, Li-Sheng Tseng, Sandra D. Simpkins, Stephanie Soto-Lara, (University of California, Irvine); Mark Vincent B. Yu (McREL International); Ta-yang Hsieh (Search Institute)

• Undergraduate Students’ Shifting Views as They Teach Science Lessons in Spanish at Bilingual Elementary Schools(link is external) —  Alejandra Yep, Jasmine M. Nation,  Chanel DeSmet,Ana Banuelos, Dayanara Ramirez, Angelica Quintana,  Araceli Camarillo (California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo)

• Understanding the Impact of Socio-Cultural Coursework for Future Educators Prior to Pre-Service Training(link is external) — Ja’Nya Banks (University of California, Berkeley)

• Examining Corrective Feedback Narratives of Teachers: Implications and Aspirations(link is external) — Aria Razfar & Rebecca Ziegler Rupnick (University of Illinois at Chicago)

• Calling for a Socially Just, Critical Reading Assessment for the 21st Century(link is external) — Diana J. Arya, Sabiha Sultana, John Galisky (University of California, Santa Barbara); Daniel Katz (NWEA)

• Street Design as Social Justice: Advancing Community Voice Through an Intergenerational Multilingual Community of Practice(link is external) — Ellen Middaugh,  Laura Vega Hernandez, Amrita Deo, Yesenia Diaz (San Jose State University)

• Hacking New Social Futures: Speculative Dream Sprints as Sites for Futurecasting(link is external) — Arturo Cortez, José Ramón Lizárraga, Alexis E. Hunter, Ashieda McKoy, Godwin W. Amouzou, Humberto Echevarria-Rios, Jade Cortez-Vargas, Isabella Herrera, Scott Perkins (University of Colorado, Boulder);  Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University); Mariel Reyes Galvez (Metropolitan State University - Denver)

• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Out-of-School Time(link is external) — Amy Vatne Bintliff, Rebecca S. Levine (University of California, San Diego); Ashley Batchelor (Arizona State University); Sayra Martinez (La Colonia De Eden Garden Inc.)

• Transformative University-Community Partnerships Facilitating Resilience Processes in Vulnerable Schools During COVID-19 in Spain(link is external) — Beatriz Macias Gomez-Estern, Virginia Martínez-Lozano (Universidad Pablo de Olavide); Jose Luis Lalueza, Ibis Álvarez-Valdivia (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

• The Role of Positionality in Promoting Racial Equity Through a Formative Intervention Study(link is external) — Antti J. Rajala (University of Eastern Finland), Nimco Noor

• Integrating Socio-Political Frameworks for Noticing to Support Equitable Transformation in College Mathematics(link is external) — Alessandra Pantano (University of California, Irvine)

• Education Recovery in California(link is external) — Ja’Nya Banks (University of California, Berkeley)

• Modding New Social Futures in Virtual and Everyday Worlds: Co-Designing Speculative Pedagogies in Videogame Play(link is external) — Arturo Cortez (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• Speculative Pedagogies in Video Gameplay: Designing for New Social Futures in Collaborative Worldmaking(link is external) — Arturo Cortez & José Ramón Lizárraga (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• School Well-Being: Central Determinants and Effects(link is external) — Amy Vatne Bintliff (University of California, San Diego) [Discussant]

• The Dynamics of Domestication in Utopian Methodological Research in Finnish Upper Secondary Schools(link is external) —  Antti J. Rajala (University of Eastern Finland)

• Embracing the Speculative via Utopian Methodology: The Role of Heterochrony(link is external) —  Antti J. Rajala (University of Eastern Finland); Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego); Moises Esteban Guitart (University of Girona)

• Educating While Racially Marginalized: The Teaching Profession as a Site for Care and Activism(link is external) — Nives Wetzel de Cediel (University of California, Berkeley) [Chair]

• Transformative Digital Spaces: Disrupting Traditional Notions of Learning and Reimagining Educational Possibilities Through Social Media(link is external) — Glynda A. Hull (University of California, Berkeley) [Chair]

• Incorporating Diasporic Indigenous Latinx Worldviews Into the Study of Transformative Social and Emotional Learning(link is external) — Saskias Casanova (University of California, Santa Cruz)

• Hope and Resilience: Migrant Essential Workers(link is external) — Rebeca Mireles-Rios (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Sunday April 14, 2024

• Complexities of Participation in Cultural Practices as Essential and Normative(link is external)—  Kris D. Gutiérrez (University of California, Berkeley)

• Discovering (to Construct) the Educational Possibilities of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Video-Based Linguistic Anthropological Approache(link is external)s — Marjorie Elaine (University of California, Los Angeles) [Discussant]

• The Role of Caregivers in Fostering Student Learning and Development(link is external) — Nestor Tulagan (University of Rochester) [Chair]

• Reconstructive Possibilities of Languaging: the Language and Social Processes (Un)Business Meeting(link is external) — Sabiha Sultana (University of California, Santa Barbara) [Officer]

• Teaching Critically in Times of War: The Promises and Challenges in Citizenship Education(link is external) — Ellen Middaugh (San Jose State University) [Officer]

• Attuning to Indicators of Equity: Developing Axiological Commitments Across Research Partnerships(link is external) —  Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University); Arturo Cortez (University of Colorado, Boulder); Paula K. Hooper, Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University); Melita Morales (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

• Social Dreaming With Youth From Nondominant Communities: Co-Designing Abolitionist Technologies in Virtual Worlds(link is external) — Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University); Arturo Cortez (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• AlgoRitmo Literacies in Gaming: Leveraging Chicanx Praxis to Reimagine AI Systems(link is external) — Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University); José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• Social Media Usage and Teacher Identity(link is external) — José Ramón Lizárraga (University of Colorado, Boulder) [Chair]

• Strategies to Support Full Implementation of Community Schools: Lessons From New Mexico(link is external) — Rebecca S. Levine (University of California, San Diego)

• An Autoethnography of an LGBTQ+ Woman’s Intersectional Digital Learning Community to Raise Critical Consciousness(link is external) — Gloriana Lopez-Leon, Saskias Casanova (University of California, Santa Cruz)

• Latinx Parental Participation and Approval of Ethnic Studies Courses in High School(link is external) — Rebeca Mireles-Rios (University of California, Santa Barbara)