Content is Not Enough: What High School Teachers Taught Us About Developing Asian American Activism Curriculum
by Katherine H. Lee and May C. Fu
ABSTRACT: This practitioner essay documents challenges the authors faced as they co-authored high school curriculum on Asian American activism for a forthcoming textbook about Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies. It exposes how collaborative projects between university professors and high school instructors can unintentionally reproduce power inequities by privileging researchers’ content knowledge over the pedagogical expertise of high school instructors. The authors consider how university instructors can collaborate more effectively with high school instructors and contribute to Asian American Studies curriculum development in ways that actually engage high school instructors’ curricular and pedagogical expertise.
Article Citation: Katherine H. Lee and May C. Fu (2024) Content is Not Enough: What High School Teachers Taught Us About Developing Asian American Activism Curriculum. AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community: 2024, Vol. 21, No. 1 & 2.