Educational Sound Studies and Sonic Pedagogies: Tales From the Field

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Whether speaking to racism and sexism in Anna Julia Cooper’s (1892) sonic framing of A Voice From the South (By a Black Woman from the South) or Franklin Bobbit’s promulgation of eugenics in the DNA of US education has long been a sonic affair. This panel serves as a performative naming of educational sound studies. Such terminology is at once theoretically pragmatic in providing an umbrella under which all sonically related educational scholarship might reside and practically theoretical in that it removes potential false binaries and boundaries between educational subfields, including educational foundations and sound pedagogies. Each of these four presentations document aspects of the potential depth and breadth of what educational sound studies and associated sonic pedagogies might be.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Theories, Methodologies, and Philosophies of Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Brandon Edwards-Schuth, Washington State University

Papers

• "And These Are the Chickens": Sonic Entanglements of Violence and Joy at an Urban Middle School - Boni Wozolek, Pennsylvania State University - Abington

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

• Sonic Histories, Sound Pedagogies: Articulating Educational Sound Studies - Walter S. Gershon, Rowan University

• Critical Podcast Methodologies: Radical Social Studies Pedagogies in Teacher Education - Brandon Edwards-Schuth, Washington State University; John J. Lupinacci, Washington State University