56.081-3 - Difficult Subjects: Radical Teaching in the Neoliberal University

• In Event: 56.081 - Roundtable Session 24

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Ideally, universities are spaces in which social problems, inequalities, and identity politics can be discussed freely and without fear of recrimination. However, recent cases of universities disciplining faculty, especially women of color faculty, for engaging students in challenging dialogues about racism and other social systems of oppression have revealed increasing restrictions on academic freedom that corresponds with the rising culture of neoliberalism in U.S. higher education. Educators engaged in a pedagogical project of disrupting hegemonic systems can find themselves confronted by both students and institutional powers that may push back on such efforts. This symposium brings together educators committed to counter-hegemonic teaching, who will share narratives of challenge and strategies for resistance and transformative teaching within the increasingly neoliberal university.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 4: Faculty, Curriculum, and Teaching

Chairs

• OiYan A. Poon, Colorado State University

• Dian D Squire, Iowa State University

Papers

• Feeling Black and Blue in Teacher Education: Negotiating Race, Embodiment, and Emotion With White Preservice Teachers - Sherry Lynn Deckman, Lehman College, CUNY; Esther Oganda Ohito, Mills College

• Resituating Neoliberalism's Construction of the Individualistic White Campus Classroom Toward Collective and Diverse Intersectional Success - Dian D Squire, Iowa State University

• When Teaching Whiteness Threatens: Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching Whiteness - Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver; Lisa Silverstein, University of Colorado - Denver