Critical Narratives in SoundTextImage: Polyphonic Expressions of Collaboration and Justice in City Schools

• In Event: Stories of Entanglements and Embodiment Through Art-Based Educational Research

Abstract

PaPart of a long history but only recently conceptualized as educational sound studies, this presentation is part of a larger project that seeks to push the boundaries of narratives for justice and their expression as “scholarship.” The broader project is a four-year longitudinal sonic ethnography in four classrooms across three city schools, a project that became a collaborative non-traditional book where half the book is in sound, texts are infused with sounds, and images respond to other medias. A work the collaborators have come to think of as public-art-in-book-form, this narrative details their process and its material expressions, sonically-oriented Arts Based (Educational) Research that is polyvocally performative, narratives that tell stories through medias about justice for continually disenfranchised youth.

Authors

• Walter S. Gershon, Rowan University

• Jorge R. Lucero, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign