Affective Cunning: Curriculum With/in Relational Networks of Gender, Knowledge, and Violence

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In line with AERA’s conference theme of remedy and repair, this session investigates multiple forms of violence in and out of schools, their materializations, and different affective strategies to engage with everyday violence and to imagine future education as otherwise. While violence has become ordinary in educational spaces, researchers often look away and focus on traditional topics of learning, teaching, and achievement with the expectation that violence will subside. In this symposium, presenters offer five feminist-approaches to studying ordinary violence, which emphasize its material and intersectional dimensions, its biopolitics, and its affective cunning. The four post/qualitative research presentations engage with everyday violence strategically–to show their own entanglements–and to offer imaginings of educational futures that move beyond the status quo.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 1: Cultural Inquiry in Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Nancy L. Lesko, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Cutting and Making Gendered Art in the Affect Flows of an Education Yet to Come - Jonathan Eakle, The George Washington University

• Inconvenient Pedagogies: Getting in the Way with The Handmaid’s Tale - Alyssa Niccolini, Goethe University Frankfurt; Bessie P. Dernikos, Florida Atlantic University

• Utopic Horizons of Prevention: The Fantasy of an Undangerous Curriculum of Violence - Stephanie D. McCall, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Haunted Teaching Time - Maddie Neufeld, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Affective Education Research In, Around, and About the WorldPride Parade - Chris Sharp, George Washington University

Discussant

• Nancy L. Lesko, Teachers College, Columbia University