Reclaiming the Teaching Profession: What Are We Reclaiming?

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this session, we seek to provoke dialogue aimed at advancing a more liberating, humanizing education inspired, in part, by Hatch’s (2015) call to reclaim the teaching profession in the wake of a 50-year neoliberal assault on public education. We were intrigued by a question posed at the end of Hatch’s 2017 AERA presentation based on his book Reclaiming the Teaching Profession, which asked: “What, indeed, are we reclaiming?” As colleagues interested in countering the discourse of neoliberal marketization, we have engaged in ongoing collaborative dialogue on the question, “How can teacher education programs reclaim their crucial role in driving education discourses rather than submitting to mandates based on flawed ideological assumptions about teaching, learning, children, and communities?”

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 03: Focus on the Lives of Teachers (knowledge, thinking, dispositions, perspectives, ideology, reflective practice, and the moral dimensions of teaching)

Chair

• Andrew J. Stremmel, South Dakota State University

Papers

• Reclaiming Teaching as an Intellectual, Experimental Enterprise - Andrew J. Stremmel, South Dakota State University

• Reclaiming Teacher Education: A Humanizing Pedagogy of Wholeness - Christine Wanjiku Nganga, The George Washington University

• Education as Democracy: Reclaiming the Agency of Subjectivity and the Courage of Truth - Jim Burns, Florida International University

Discussant

• Frances OC Rust, New York University