Discourse, Imagination, and Advocacy

• In Event: 35.082 - Roundtable Session 14
  In Roundtable Session: 35.082-13 - Be in the World: Making Meaning Through Participation

Abstract

Discourse, Imagination, and Advocacy
Where in the current educational conversation are spaces within which to speak out for the nurturing of justice and equality? In what ways can the provocative writings of Leo Buscaglia (1982), Virginia Woolf (1929), and Ralph Ellison (1947) impact the 21st Century need for social justice in curriculum and instruction? Their voices are re-imagined within the context of a conversation about the realities, conflicts, and aspirations of fostering social justice and respect within today’s educational landscape. In the spirit of daydreams and imagination, this aesthetic exploration integrates relevant voices of the past and present to allow us to revisit (and to be re-inspired) by the thoughts of these thinkers in innovative and contemporary ways.

Authors

• Edward Podsiadlik III, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Phillip J. Bowen, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Catherine Carr, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Ivan Martinez, University of Illinois at Chicago