Tensions, Justice, and Care: Sound School Boards in Contemporary US Education

• In Event: Curricular Policy Agents: Critical Frictions and Transformative Disruptions

Abstract

Our study examines the question: How do emergent curricula of local school board work affect those who understand their engagement in such processes as acts of critical care and justice? Our decision to center questions of affect is intended to center questions of feelings and sensations associated with fields such as affect theory, sensory studies, and sound studies, as well as their educational intersections. Preliminary findings suggest inversions where privilege is necessary to speak to questions of justice, yet educational expertise and cultural capital are treated as signifiers for lack of academic content knowledge and understandings of community needs that seek to narrow knowledge and limit access.

Authors

• Walter S. Gershon, Rowan University

• Kayla Raye Dickens, Independent Scholar