Graduate Student Council Division B Fireside Chat: An Interlacing of Theory and Practice When Curriculum Is Under Attack

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Many graduate students struggle with threading the relationship (the apparent gap) between theory and practice in general and within their own research projects, writing, and internship/practicum experiences, as well as with formulating their relationship to both. We believe this discussion is urgent within a context in which more expansive curricula--particularly curricula that center the histories, knowledge and perspectives of minoritized and marginalized communities due to race, gender and sexuality, disability, nationality and citizenship, and language, religion--is actively and increasingly being erased, silenced, slandered, banned, and made the subject of fear-mongering tactics. The discussion will relate to how graduate students can (re/un)think about the interlacing and interrelationality between theory and practice as they move through their studies into their careers.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Chairs

• Cynthia Simekha, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• MaryJohn R. Pachuta-Rysak, Grand Valley State University

Speakers

• Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

• Bettina L. Love, Teachers College, Columbia University