75.042-10 - Hanging Onto Truths: Why Language Must Remain Key to the Study of Social Learning Processes

• In Event: 75.042 - MTCC Roundtable Session 34

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Four interdisciplinary talks from multiple approaches to the study of language will prompt audience discussion of the question: Whose truths get lost if, in educational research, we lose focus on the role of language in understanding the social process of teaching and learning? Each talk will provide a case that surfaces issues and questions that expand understanding about the value of language research in identifying opportunities to disrupt patterns of educational inequity, especially when considering whose voices get privileged. Discussion will follow about the value of bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives in advancing the power of language research to challenge dominant post-truth paradigms.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Language and Social Processes

Chair

• Danielle Lillge, Illinois State University

Papers

• Disorienting Discourses: School Reform Mandates and Teachers' Orientations to Professional Development Learning - Danielle Lillge, Illinois State University

• "The Stony Silence Thing": Contextual Subversion of Ideologies About Gender and Literacy in English Classes - Christopher Parsons, Keene State College

• Performing Language Curriculum: Constructing Identities and Power Through Narratives in Classroom Discourses - Kongji Qin, New York University

• Small Stories of Standardization and Possibility: Teacher Positioning Through Narrative Within the Accountability Era - Laura A Taylor, Rhodes College

Discussant

• Michiko Hikida, The Ohio State University - Columbus