Juxtapoetics: Aesthetic Uncovering of Racist Logics Within a Crisis Intervention Team Training's Instructional Arc

• In Event: 25.055 - Elliot Eisner SIG Paper Session

Abstract

With Educational Criticism, I delved into curricular features of a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training for police officers in an urban department through the interpretive framework of intended, enacted, and received curriculum (Eisner, 1998; Uhrmacher et al., 2017). Within the analysis of CIT’s instructional arc, I engaged a dual-purpose. First, I juxtaposed formal, academic text and research studies with work of decolonial scholars (i.e., Coulthard, 2014; Fanon, 1967 & 1963/2004; McKittrick, 2006; Silva, 2001; Wynter, 2003), extending the conceptualizations to deconstruct policing. Second, I described CIT Training in great detail, utilizing perceptivity, criticality, and aesthetic orientations from my “culture-specific” (Wynter & McKittrick, 2015, p. 45) position to interpret observations of CIT and police interviews through logics of whiteness.

Author

• Tara Meister, Pacific University