Sound Pedagogies: Theoretical and Material Possibilities for Studying Knowledges in Action

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The papers on this international panel performatively explicate what we are calling sound pedagogies: polyphonic possibilities for studying knowledges in action. We adopt sound pedagogies so as to ‘listen in detail’ to knowledge formation and mobilization in education settings, making space for disruption, criticality, and the auditory-reception of the silenced. We understand sound pedagogies as enacted attunements of what, and how, we know. They are the kinds of knowledges that comprise ecologies—affective, material compositions upon which we render our understandings of the world. Sound pedagogies are endlessly entangled: resonating and reverberating, amplified and dampened. This panel approaches sound pedagogies from a variety of fields and perspectives drawing from the fields of education, sound studies, and emerging qualitative methodologies.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts-Based Educational Research

Chair

• Walter S. Gershon, Rowan University

Papers

• Beyond the "State of Permanent Tension": Listening Affirmatively to Black Madness in the Music Classroom - David Ben Shannon, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Sound as the Notation for an Algebra of Knowing, Sound as Postcolonial Critique of Educational Practice - Peter M. Appelbaum, Arcadia University

• "The Voices Will Disrupt the Flow": Sound Art, Queer Youth of Color, and the Museum - Boni Wozolek, Penn State University, Abington College

• Chocolate Spectral Resonances: Calling Sun Ra, Calling Alton Sterling - Reagan P. Mitchell, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

• What Is the Sound of Knowledge Passing? Reverberations and Resonances in Everyday Education - Walter S. Gershon, Rowan University

Discussant

• Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, University of Ottawa