58.083-8 - Curricular Hacking and Other Suspensions as a (re)Turn to the Commons

• In Event: 58.083 - Roundtable Session 26

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium seeks to expand the emerging explorations of acts of suspension of the foundations of pedagogical practice as conceptual and practical tools. As explained by Lewis & Friedrich (2016), these are political interventions that aim at returning the purposes and processes of education back to the commons. The symposium will start with an exploration of the philosophy of suspension and political appropriation, to then move on to specific forms of suspension. One paper will hack teacher assessment forms and invite the audience to do the same; another paper will explore speculative engineering as ways to suspend the alleged usefulness of STEM curricula; and the last paper will delve into the complicated nature of examples in pedagogical practice.  

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 1: Culture and Commentary (The Readings/Makings of Curriculum)

Chair

• Daniel Friedrich, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Educational Hacking: The Politics of Appropriation for Common Use in Educational Practice and Research - Tyson E. Lewis, University of North Texas

• Hacking Toward a Public Education - Jordan Corson, Teachers College, Columbia University; Daniel Friedrich, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Speculative Engineering: The Case for Fictional STEM Knowledge - Elizabeth De Freitas, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Exemplifying: An Experiential Case for a Unique Educational Practice - Joris Vlieghe, Liverpool Hope University