A Multivocal Review of AERA's Handbook on Teaching

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 2
  In Roundtable Session: Readings of Curriculum as Political Ideologies, Possibilities, and Contradictions in Textbooks

Abstract

This multi-vocal presentation explores notions of accommodation, resistance, and transformation associated with six diverse doctoral students’ close reading of AERA’s recently published Handbook of Research on Teaching (Gitomer & Bell, 2016) during the early period of our studies in curriculum and pedagogy at a major education school. We met following a course about education paradigms to discuss and analyze the entire handbook in terms of its conditions of possibilities (Foucault, 1970/2005), and wrote results using writing as inquiry approaches (Richardson & St. Pierre, 2005). We show the usefulness, limits, and possibilities (pertaining to AERA’s conference call for proposals and education futures), of the handbook for doctoral study from our various perspectives, which include critical theory, constructivism, and the post-human/non-human turn.

Authors

• Jonathan Eakle, George Washington University

• Evan Crump, The George Washington University

• Courtney Beth Harrington, The George Washington University

• Kristen McInerney, The George Washington University

• Mary Elizabeth Short, The George Washington University

• Rachel Talbert, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Binyu Yang, The George Washington University