Dana Nickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4217705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Nickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Nickson |
| SIGNATURE | NICKSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5448-7131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Partnering to make a homeplace for Black families
This paper examines how a research-community-practice partnership (RCPP) led primarily by Black women district and community leaders navigated systemic challenges to racial equity work and created conditions for co-designing with Black families and communities. Drawing on data analyses from planning meetings with district leaders, families, community partners, and university researchers, we discuss three findings pertaining to our RCPP’s efforts …
Placemaking and Contesting the Spatial Politics of Suburbia
This conceptual paper invites educational scholars to study the interplay between race, space, and place from a geographic lens to understand Black and Latinx communities’ placemaking in and out of suburban schools. The spatial arrangements concerning the politics of suburban schools and communities can be understood through Black and Latinx geographies to facilitate a more dynamic way to talk about how Black and Latinx communities make sense of …
Livonia is just all racism”
Black Spatial Storylines
Black education has interrogated race, context, and power questions, yet these practices spanning geographies and learning contexts have not always been valued as spatial knowledge. Further, Black scholars have carved out spaces that honor the communal and spatial sensibilities of Black students, educators, and communities. Black geographies thought can help us reshape how we understand and interrogate issues within education and learning with at…
Nothing about us without us
In this paper, a collaborative group of university researchers and a community organizer who participated in a 2-year participatory action research (PAR) partnership reflect upon their inquiry process and analyze its effects. Authors examine the benefits, challenges, and potential of using PAR to advance educational justice and transformative goals amidst austere neoliberal education reforms, such as public school closure and state sanctioned pri…
The Democratization of Educational Care
Too often, Black families’ educational agency has been marginalized in discourse on racial and spatial divides in US education. Indeed, Black families have persistently employed a range of tactics to access and create the educational resources their children deserve. Drawing from scholarship on spatial imaginaries, in this article, I track how Black families have developed democratic and communal outlooks on place-based resources such as public s…
Black Spatial Storylines
Black education has interrogated race, context, and power questions, yet these practices spanning geographies and learning contexts have not always been valued as spatial knowledge. Further, Black scholars have carved out spaces that honor the communal and spatial sensibilities of Black students, educators, and communities. Black geographies thought can help us reshape how we understand and interrogate issues within education and learning with at…
Livonia is just all racism”
Nothing about us without us
In this paper, a collaborative group of university researchers and a community organizer who participated in a 2-year participatory action research (PAR) partnership reflect upon their inquiry process and analyze its effects. Authors examine the benefits, challenges, and potential of using PAR to advance educational justice and transformative goals amidst austere neoliberal education reforms, such as public school closure and state sanctioned pri…
The Democratization of Educational Care
Too often, Black families’ educational agency has been marginalized in discourse on racial and spatial divides in US education. Indeed, Black families have persistently employed a range of tactics to access and create the educational resources their children deserve. Drawing from scholarship on spatial imaginaries, in this article, I track how Black families have developed democratic and communal outlooks on place-based resources such as public s…
Nothing about us without us
In this paper, a collaborative group of university researchers and a community organizer who participated in a 2-year participatory action research (PAR) partnership reflect upon their inquiry process and analyze its effects. Authors examine the benefits, challenges, and potential of using PAR to advance educational justice and transformative goals amidst austere neoliberal education reforms, such as public school closure and state sanctioned pri…
Livonia is just all racism”
Black Spatial Storylines
Black education has interrogated race, context, and power questions, yet these practices spanning geographies and learning contexts have not always been valued as spatial knowledge. Further, Black scholars have carved out spaces that honor the communal and spatial sensibilities of Black students, educators, and communities. Black geographies thought can help us reshape how we understand and interrogate issues within education and learning with at…
Partnering to make a homeplace for Black families
This paper examines how a research-community-practice partnership (RCPP) led primarily by Black women district and community leaders navigated systemic challenges to racial equity work and created conditions for co-designing with Black families and communities. Drawing on data analyses from planning meetings with district leaders, families, community partners, and university researchers, we discuss three findings pertaining to our RCPP’s efforts …
Placemaking and Contesting the Spatial Politics of Suburbia
This conceptual paper invites educational scholars to study the interplay between race, space, and place from a geographic lens to understand Black and Latinx communities’ placemaking in and out of suburban schools. The spatial arrangements concerning the politics of suburban schools and communities can be understood through Black and Latinx geographies to facilitate a more dynamic way to talk about how Black and Latinx communities make sense of …
Sociology (5 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (2 works)