CREATE for STEM – Guest Speaker Presentation

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Abstract:

McKinney de Royston (2020) defines political clarity as anti-oppressive praxis—i.e. as a teacher’s enactment of multiple ways of knowing that disrupts anti-Blackness and positions Black learners as educable and worthy of care, protection and dignity (McKinney de Royston, Madkins, Givens, and Nasir, 2021). Nasir, Lee, Pea and McKinney de Royston (2021) articulate these multiple ways of knowing through their framework of learning known as the RISE Principles (Nasir, Lee, Pea, and McKinney de Royston, 2021). In this talk, McKinney will link how the RISE principles evidence a political clarity that challenges on-going assumptions about learning and development, about what it means to be human in contemporary society, and what it means to engage in STEM teaching and learning. 

Speaker:

Maxine McKinney de Royston is the Dean of Faculty and Associate Professor at the Erikson Institute in Chicago, IL. Her research and teaching centers around two strands: 1) understanding the multidimensional and political nature of teaching and learning; 2) how Black educator’s political clarity can be reflected in their pedagogical practices to support the intellectual thriving and holistic well-being of racially and economically minoritized learners, especially Black children. She is a co-editor, along with Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Carol Lee, and Roy Pea, of the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning.