53.079 - Navigating Work: Considering Context, Conflict, Ethics, and Activism in Teachers' Labor

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

From multiple entry points, authors navigate and expand upon the concept of teachers’ work, itself. Additionally, each paper examines particular navigations that teachers perform. From negotiating the teacher-paraprofessional relationship, to employing particular ethical frameworks in organizing work, to contending with new modes of governing, each author explores critical dimensions of teachers’ multi-dimensional labor.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Teachers Work/Teacher Unions

Chair

• Brandon L Fox, Stephen F. Austin State University

Papers

• Teachers and Paras: Conflict and Compromise in Corridors and Classrooms - Johanna S Quinn, Montclair State University

• Theorizing Knowledge in Teacher Activism: The Ethical Philosophies of Educators Organizing for Social Justice - Lauren Stark, University of Virginia

• Cruel Optimism, Precarity, and the Explosion of Short-Term Teaching Contracts in Australian Schools - Timothy Mark Bush, The University of Melbourne

Discussant

• Elizabeth Wurzburg, University of Georgia - Athens