Remembering Jean Anyon: Radical Possibilities in Research, Policy, and Practice With and for Vulnerable Populations

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Jean Anyon was a leading scholar whose Marxist analysis of education underscored not only the ‘hidden’ ways that schooling serves to reproduce class inequities, but also how educational injustice is connected to other social policies that maintain poverty and minimize opportunity. Five scholars extend her thinking drawing on ethnographic methods to examine safe(r) spaces for LGBTIQA+ youth and for immigrant youth, policies impacting homeless students, the role of school personnel in school choice, and technology funding for teachers

Each paper is influenced by Anyon’s political economy of schooling, as well as her belief that community organizing provides radical possibilities for resisting (rather than reproducing) inequity. The papers shared each provide a snapshot for rethinking educational policy from a specific lens.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Reform

Chair

• Anthony De Jesus, Harvard University

Papers

• Technology Funding Policy in Practice: Revisiting the Hidden Curriculum in the 21st-Century Classroom - Kiersten Greene, SUNY - College at New Paltz

• Exploring Radical Possibilities and Practices for LGBTIQA+ Youth Advocates in Public Schools - Amy Moran, Teaneck Public Schools

• What's Radical About Possibility? The Destructive Powers of Political Economy in Policies for Homeless Students - Liza Pappas, The New York City Independent Budget Office

• Hidden Transactions: How School Personnel Shape Public School Choice for Families Across Class Lines - Madeline Perez De Jesus, University of Saint Joseph

• Cultural Political Economy in Research With Immigrant Youth - Daniel R. Walsh, The New York City Department of Education

• Political Economy at Work: Examining Interethnic Relations in a Site of Anti-Immigrant Violence - Roberto Martinez, Brooklyn College

Discussant

• Michelle Fine, City University of New York