Doubling Down Through a Culture of Positivism: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and AVID for Higher Education

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Six
  In Roundtable Session: Freedom Dreaming, Freedom Teaching (Table 19)

Abstract

This presentation analyzes the means by which AVID for Higher Education (AHE) socializes teacher educators and teacher-preparation programs to its ideological network. Through scenes reconstructed from Cornell Notes taken at an AVID Summer Institute, the author examines this process as a doubling down on positivistic principles in teacher education. Turning to Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864) for insight into cultures of positivism, the presentation exposes white-neoliberal structures in AHE that direct teacher-educators away from critical consciousness, racial equity, and social justice.

Author

• Rick J. Lybeck, Minnesota State University - Mankato
  Presenting Author