Study in the Wild: Unlearning With Newcomer Youth

• In Event: Refusal, Radical Imaginations, and World Remaking Curriculum

Abstract

This paper engages study as an educational act of “pure means” and “potentiality” (Lewis, 2020) and wildness as a “form of mess making in a world obsessed with order” (Halberstam & Nyong’o 2018, p. 456) to interrogate who and what counts in educational discourses. Exploring everyday educational life with recently immigrated youth, this work aims to open new possibilities for understanding and practicing education, particularly in terms of anti-colonial notions of equality and justice. Drawing on anecdotes from a larger ethnographic project, wild study conceptualizes educational practices that move beyond the dominant logics of inclusion and academic outcomes.

Author

• Jordan Corson, Stockton University