Volatile Bodies and Boundaries: Ethical Dilemmas in Teaching and Research

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Guided by critical theories and methodologies, in this symposium panelists explore ethical dilemmas emergent in research and teaching relationships. Addressing questions of bodies, emotions and boundaries in classroom and research encounters, authors consider the multiple ways in which race, disability and sexual orientation inform embodied subjectivities, complicate relationships, and construct ways of knowing and being. As anti-oppression educators concerned with creating research that has potential to improve people’s lives, we explore what is at stake for whom when difference is acknowledged rather than ignored. We ask: how can critical reflections on our own subjectivities be employed to enrich analyses and further critical concerns? Each presenter will explore the implications of this question in relationship to their teaching and research projects.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Susan Dion, York University

Papers

• Volatile Bodies and Vulnerable Researchers: Ethical Risks of Embodiment Research - Carla Rice, University of Guelph

• Queer Teacher and Queer Student Bodies Sharing Classroom Space - Vanessa Russell, University of Toronto - OISE

• You are just being nosey about our lives: Ethical Listening as Indigenous Adolescent Girls Tell Their Stories - Susan Dion, York University

Discussant

• Christine L. Cho, Trent University