White Study Hall: Collective Investigations and Creative Responses to the Problem of Educational Whiteness

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session engages the ongoing work of a three-person research-artist-activist collective called White Study Hall. As white educators working in different institutions, we come together around a commitment to rethink how our bodies engage, disrupt, and perform with, against, and through whiteness (Ahmed, 2007; Leonardo & Zembylas, 2003). In this session, we trace the arc of our six year collaboration across various projects including multi-genre writing, group “assignments”, and community workshops, to explore how our work can better unfurl into the curricular space of teacher education. We wonder what creative, activist practices emerge in teacher education when we take seriously the nuances of embodied teaching, collaborative practices, and learning inside of and in opposition to the harms of racism.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Danielle R. Filipiak, Michigan State University

Papers

• An Uncertain Curriculum - Victoria G. Restler, Rhode Island College

• Feeling Race’s Funny Bones - Maya R. Pindyck, Moore College of Art & Design

• The Pleasures and Politics of Affinity - Jessica Hamlin, New York University