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Critical Geographies of Space in Education: Hopeful Spaces Within Oppressive Places

Fri, April 13, 12:00 to 1:30pm, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Fourth Floor, Lincoln Suite

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This symposium explores space and place in relation to educational experiences and schooling contexts. The papers consider how students of color, prisoners, teachers, community members, and administrators experience and respond to forces of control and/or privilege in educational spaces. We consider how schools mediate conflicting forces of “community” and “neighborhood” in an era of schooling privatization. This panel will address questions about the construction of privileged and banished spaces within educational places, including notions of discipline, punishment, and invisibility. Moreover, we examine the ways in which students, teachers, and other agents respond to oppressive educational places through the creation of liberatory spaces and the use of humanizing practices.

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