Vectors of Difference, Media Production, and the Limits of Place-Based Pedagogy

• In Event: 70.031 - New Materialisms and the Ontologies of Social Context: Critical Inquiry on Equity and Justice in Education

Abstract

In this paper, the author draws on a design-based ethnographic study of media production in the context of high school career and technical education (CTE) to illustrate the possibilities and limitations of place-based pedagogy. For the purpose of this symposium, most salient in the media production were the ways in which students assembled and constructed relational experiences as racialized, gendered, and minoritized youth in order to enter, alter, and/or disrupt dominant discourses in mainstream media. The study’s findings suggest the centrality of supportive learning environments in CTE; they also point to the importance of rethinking place-based pedagogy beyond the “local” or spatial boundaries of school and neighborhood to account for vectors of difference in students’ lives that may be influenced by digital media technology as way to further support students’ interests in and outside of CTE.

Author

• Korina Jocson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst