Exploring Teacher Activism, Work, and Movements: A Generative Dialogue to Inform Praxis

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

This dialogic panel consist of Scholar-Activists and Teacher Union Leaders working with teachers’ unions and community groups It is designed as a space to engage in deep and much needed conversations about the economic conditions that encircle the lives of people, and how capitalism shapes peoples’ lives and social relations that delimit potential for human development and the political-economic dimensions of education. The dialogue will be framed by a set of questions about the in/visibility of class relations, of political-economy, and the historical expansion of capitalism globally. Presenters will address the contributions of collective struggle and every day praxis in social movements.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation

Chair

• Sheila L. Macrine, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

Papers

• Scholar-Activists, Teacher Union Leaders Pauline Lipman, Wayne Au, Lois Weiner, Teresa Theresa Montaño - Pauline Lipman, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lois Weiner, New Jersey City University; Wayne Au, University of Washington - Bothell; Theresa Montano, California State University - Northridge; Sheila L. Macrine, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth; Miguel Zavala, California State University - Los Angeles; Tricia M. Kress, Molloy College; Alexander Means, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Zachary A. Casey, Rhodes College