GSC Chair Fireside Chat: Educational Research in the 21st Century as an Abilene Paradox: Just Go With It... Or Should You?

Session Submission Type: Fireside Chat

Abstract

How does the Abilene Paradox come into play for graduate students, specifically, who aspire to be educational change agents? How, when, and should, graduate students “rock the boat”? The diverse panelists will share their experiences as it relates to graduate students who are “rocking the education boat” and pushing the field of not only teaching and pedagogy, but also educational research. The panelists will share how graduate students and early career scholars can influence enemies, allies, and confidantes, in the educational spaces that they occupy—be it schools, universities, or communities.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Chair

• Nicholas Daniel Hartlep, Illinois State University

Participants

• Thandeka K. Chapman, University of California - San Diego

• Ernest D. Morrell, Teachers College, Columbia University

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade, San Francisco State University

• Rema Reynolds, Azusa Pacific University

• Cleveland Hayes, University of La Verne