Chapman University is proud to have been strongly represented in the prestigious 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference. The Attallah College of Educational Studies’ faculty, staff, and alumni showcased its expertise in 24 meetings, panels, and paper and poster presentations during the conference.

Sessions featuring current faculty, staff, and students as presenters or moderators included:

The most important book group…ever: Elementary Teachers’ Critical Consciousness Development Using Systems Thinking
Dr. Margaret Sauceda Curwen, Associate Professor

The Education of Activists: Critical Racial Literacy Among Chicana Undergraduates
Elena Marie Marquez, Ph.D. Student

Communal Praxis: A Core Component for Action around Educator Preparation
Dr. Charlotte Achieng-Evensen, Thompson Policy Institute on Disability; Dr. Kevin Nguyen-Stockbridge, Chapman University Director of LGBTQ Pride and Achievement

Law Enforcement, Race, Ability: Confronting Bias with Education and Training
Dr. Meghan E. Cosier, Associate Professor, Kaylie Holke, Ph.D. Student

Moving from cultural defects to cultural strengths: Addressing deficit ideologies among preservice educators through community-based education
Dr. Quaylan Allen, Associate Professor

Media Assessments of Black NCAA Quarterback Performance
Dr. Keith E. Howard, Professor

Visualizing Belonging: Black First-Generation College Student Sense of Belonging at a Historically White Institution
Dr. Quaylan Allen, Associate Professor

 A LatCrit Analysis of Belonging, Accountability, and Establishing a Latina-Oriented Sorority at an Aspiring Hispanic-Serving Institution
Dr. Stephany Cuevas, Assistant Professor

A Critical and Analytical Autoethnography of a Filipina American College Student
Myra Dayrit, Integrated Educational Studies Undergraduate Student 

Marx, Freire, and the Journey toward Discovery of My Educational Philosophy: An Autoethnography
Nidzara Pecenkovic, Ph.D. Student

Pedagogy of the Child: Play as Humanizing Praxis
Dr. Lilia D. Monzó, Professor, Katie Kitchens, Ph.D. Student, Elena Marie Marquez, Ph.D. Student

AERA Scholars of Color in Education Committee Closed Meeting
Chair: Dr. Quaylan Allen, Associate Professor

Existing in the Borderlands: A Duoethnography on Bilingualism and Identity
Brittnie Ferguson, Ph.D. Student, Nidzara Pecenkovic, Ph.D. Student

Developing Anti-Deficit Noticing: Learning to “Prioritize Student Language, Student Thought, and Student Voice”
Dr. Tara Barnhart, Assistant Professor

AERA Committee on Scholars of Color in Education Mentoring Roundtable
Chair: Dr. Quaylan Allen, Associate Professor

Transformation as Hope
Dr. Margaret Grogan, Professor Emerita of Education

AERA Social Justice Action Committee: Closed Meeting
Participant: Dr. Quaylan Allen, Associate Professor

Systems Thinking in Education SIG Business Meeting
Participant: Dr. Margaret Sauceda Curwen, Associate Professor

Decolonial Marxism and the Challenge to Racial-Colonial Capitalist Patriarchy: Considering Dialectics and Analectics Around the Zapatistas
Dr. Lilia D. Monzó, Professor, Nidzara Pecenkovic, Ph.D. Student

Un Pueblo Unido: School Spaces and the co-construction of Social Capital
Cristal B. Flores, Ph.D. Student

Counter-Narrative as Transformative Praxis in Education
Discussant: Dr. Quaylan Allen, Associate Professor

Ancestral Knowledges: Narratives of Remembering
Dr. Lilia D. Monzó, Professor, Dr. Charlotte Achieng-Evensen, Thompson Policy Institute on Disability, Joey Yung-Jun Liu, Ph.D. ‘22

 AERA Scholars of Color in Education Committee Closed Meeting
Chair: Dr. Quaylan Allen, Associate Professor