Discussing the Epistemological Possibilities and Limits in Puerto Rican Education Research

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Abstract

I am interested in the legal and historical aspects biopolitics, and their respective influences on contemporary education and education reforms in Puerto Rico. I am currently researching how biopolitical discourses are used to rationalize and construct ‘the citizen’ and ‘the child’ within education reforms in Puerto Rico. I am also researching how that rationale determines which ‘child’ and which ‘citizen’ is to be educated. As discussed elsewhere, I am interested in the intersection of language education reforms, economic development, and biopolitics in Puerto Rican education reforms. My aim at this conference is to try to engage the audience in a discussion about the possibilities and limits of using biopolitics to examine educational research practices in the pursuit of advancing justice.

Author

• Bethsaida Nieves, University of Wisconsin - Madison