The 14th International Conference on Education and Justice is being held jointly with the College of Education (COE) and the Fall 2024 Meeting of Education Deans for Justice and Equity (EDJE) on December 6-7, 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

HOSTS:

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, College of Education
University Laboratory School

SPONSORS:
Hawai‘i Scholars for Education and Social Justice (HSESJ)
Education Deans for Justice and Equity (EDJE)
Teaching for Social Justice Book Series (Teachers College Press)
UCLA School of Education and Information Studies
University of San Diego School of Leadership and Education Sciences
Western Michigan University

THEME:

Collectively Advancing Education, Democracy, and Human Rights in Times of Their Dismantling.  Locally and globally, the attacks on and dismantling of education, democratic institutions and civic participation, and human rights and sovereignty, particularly for historically marginalized populations, are crystalizing for all to see.  These attacks are highly coordinated, well-funded, and long entrenched in a range of intersecting ideologies and systems of imperialism and settler colonialism, white supremacy, dominionism, heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism, militarism and carcerality, and more.  Examples include policy “reforms” and public rhetoric that undermine any number of issues ranging from anti-genocide protest and truthful curriculum to DEI initiatives and LGBTQIA+ inclusion; from teacher professionalism and student civil-rights protections to democratic governance and equitable funding of educational institutions and initiatives; from humanizing learning and teaching at the classroom level, to community capacity building at the school and district levels, to a bold vision of education as movement building for justice at the levels of systems and values.

OVERVIEW: 

The 14th International Conference on Education and Justice highlights the role of educational scholars in anti-oppressive movement building, particularly when we produce scholarship collectively and leverage it for public pedagogy.  Sessions will feature projects that aim to raise public awareness or influence educational policy and practice, as well as strategies to build our capacity for such interventions.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 

Educators, scholars, students, leaders, advocates, and educational organizations and institutions from across the United States and around the world will convene to share works-in-progress of collective scholarship for public pedagogy, as well as to support one another in such work through critical self-reflection and constructive criticism.  The Conference calls particularly for proposals that highlight anti-oppressive education that addresses the current dismantling of public schooling, democratic institutions, and human rights locally and around the world.