Aaliyah El-Amin

Harvard University

Dr. Aaliyah El-Amin is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is committed to ensuring that educators have the knowledge and tools they need to disrupt systems of oppression and to re-imagine education in more liberatory ways. Her areas of expertise include critical pedagogy, liberatory education models rooted in the black radical education tradition, social justice schooling, and youth participatory action research. At HGSE, she teaches Emancipatory Inquiry: Listening and Learning for Social Change & Educating to Transform Society: Preparing Students to Disrupt & Dismantle Racism. Her research includes an ethnographic inquiry of three emancipatory schools in the U.S and a mixed-methods study of high schools working to nurture critical consciousness with BIPOC youth (alongside Dr. Scott Seider and Dr. Daren Graves). Prior to her time at HGSE, Dr. El-Amin was an elementary classroom teacher, a school administrator in Atlanta, GA, and a non-profit Executive Director in Charlotte, NC.

Areas of Expertise

• Education
• Race and Ethnicity
• Critical Pedagogy
• Black Liberatory Pedagogy
• Critical Consciousness
• Critical Qualitative Methods

Methodology

• Ethnographic Methods
• Interviews
• Qualitative Methods
• Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)