Black Study in Education Lab

Our mission is to actively engage in the transformative power of Black study as an emancipatory and capacious force to advance interdisciplinary research, teaching, and study practices in education.

Affirming Blackness, Transforming Knowledge

We use Black study to imagine new, liberating ways of thinking and living. We question and challenge traditional systems of knowledge, practice care in how we work, and focus on Black people’s right to define themselves and their dreams. Through learning, research, and working together, we support bold, Black futures that go beyond the limits of schools and institutions.

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Featured Videos

Penn State ChangeMakers: Wilson Okello

Dr. Okello's engaging performance of spoken-word poetry provides insight to the focus of his research which draws on Black critical theories to advance student development theory, critical qualitative inquiry, and more.

Title slide "On the Question of Blackness in Qualitative Inquiry" by Wilson Okello QuallLabs Lunch

QualLab Lunch: On the Question of Blackness in Qualitative Inquiry

Dr. Wilson Okello discusses how theorizing Blackness provides the conditions of possibility for upsetting epistemic, ontological, and axiological foundations that structure Western knowledge production and Black existence.