56.054 - Teacher as Researcher SIG Business Meeting: An Intimate Conversation About Teaching and Researching Into the Contradictions With Michelle Fine

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

Critical participatory action research by/with educators has animated a social movement of intellectual and ethical power that builds critical curriculum, raises issues of social (in)justice and cultivates solidarities between educators and youth/schools and communities, across power lines of race/ethnicity and class. In this discussion I am interested in the profound material and existential contradictions educators face, and interrogate, in their daily practice, in their political relation to metric madness and in the elegance and passion of collective teacher research. Drawing on the legacy of Maxine Greene and the growing movement of teacher research to remain “wide awake,” I hope to engage a conversation with educators about researching what is, and what must be.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Teacher as Researcher

Chair

• Megan Blumenreich, City College of New York - CUNY

Speaker

• Michelle Fine, City University of New York

Participants

• Erin A. Hashimoto-Martell, Boston Public Schools

• Alan D. Amtzis, The College of New Jersey

• Annie Adamian, University of San Francisco

• Christopher C. Martell, Boston University