ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors put forth a conceptualization of educational border ecologies—that is, the entanglement of educational systems with the militarized structures and apparatuses that regulate human mobility worldwide (e.g., border regimes). Specifically, they discuss how these entanglements amplify educational inequalities for children and youth from historically marginalized communities. Drawing on transnational feminist, spatial perspectives, and examples from a Philadelphia-based research-practice partnership dedicated to exploring issues of educational equity and access (CARE—Communities Advancing Research in Education), they then offer examples of how resistant teaching and learning (what they term border-transgressing pedagogies) have been mobilized to disrupt the effects of educational border ecologies on minoritized children and youths’ educational pathways. They conclude with suggestions for border-transgressing research, policy, and praxis.
