25.012 - The Curriculum of Lines of Flight in Transformative Pedagogies: Resistances in the Age of Neoliberalism

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The current era of “corporate education reform” provides a challenging context for preparing and supporting teachers to enact teaching practices and pedagogies consistent with goals of social justice. Possibilities for resistance to the status quo of practice in K-16 educational institutions exist, even as mere cracks, and even in increasingly neoliberal times. Drawing from diverse perspectives, the set of papers in this symposium explore the “lines of flight” constructed by educators across the teacher professional continuum, including pre-service and new teachers as well as school-based mentors, that open up possibilities for different ways of teaching and learning.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 4: People and Politics (The Who of Curriculum)

Chair

• Sabrina Nicole Ross-Griffin, Georgia Southern University

Papers

• Transforming Teacher Education Through Emancipatory Forms of Hip-Hop Culture - Bradley J. Porfilio, Seattle University

• Teaching Disney in the Age of Perpetual, Disposable Consumption - William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University

• Rupturing the Status Quo of Instruction: Lines of Flight in First-Year Teaching - Kathryn Jill Strom, California State University - East Bay; Adrian D. Martin, New Jersey City University; Charity Mack Dacey, Montclair State University

• Developing Our Collective Capacity to Resist "New Professionalism" - Linda Whalen Abrams, Knowles Science Teaching Foundation

Discussants

• Christine E. Sleeter, California State University - Monterey Bay

• Peter L. McLaren, Chapman University