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Session Type: Symposium
This is a cross-national symposium of researchers from the United States and Canada, exploring how teachers conceive of and negotiate neutrality in classroom discussions about two polarizing topics: economic inequality and the presidency of Donald Trump. The papers in this session report on a data set that is unique in two ways. First, it includes teachers from a representative sample of U.S. public high schools and government supported schools in Canada, allowing the authors to speak to how teaches grapple with issues of neutrality across very different political contexts (red, blue, and purple.) Second, it includes math, English, and social studies teachers allowing for examination of how issues of neutrality play out across different subject areas.
"A Sharper Disagreement": Teachers Struggling With Questions of Neutrality in the Age of Trump - John S. Rogers, University of California - Los Angeles; Rebecca Cooper Geller, University of Georgia
"Numbers Don't Lie": Secondary Mathematics Classrooms as (Non)Neutral Learning Environments for Issues of Economic Inequality - Mary Candace Raygoza, Saint Mary's College of California
Weighing In on the American Dream: Pedagogical Negotiations Around Teacher Neutrality - Matt Brillinger, University of Ottawa; Michael Ishimoto, University of California - Los Angeles
There Is No Neutrality in a Foxhole: Teaching Critical Thinking "Objectively" in High Schools - Anthony A Berryman, University of California - Los Angeles; Agata Soroko, University of Ottawa