Telling (subversive) stories: Dominant narratives, accountability and resistance

• In Event: Institutional Responsibility, Leadership, and Counterstorytelling in Education

Abstract

Mindful of the urgent need for critical engagement and healing, we draw from the AESA conference call to address the question, “How do we move beyond rhetorical social justice commitments and enact new relations…in the development of solutions?” We ask participants to join us in exploring the role of stories and language, specifically that which we use to hold ourselves and others accountable as educators. How do the stories we weave and are woven into contribute to healing and/or harming both individuals and the institutions and communities in which we belong? How do these stories work for or against our social justice commitments and our ability to enact new relations? Rejecting the reductionist and metric-based language of neoliberalism, we ask participants to join us in exploring more humane, complex, subversive, and interconnected ways of talking, thinking, and being in educational communities.

Authors

• Carolyne Ali-Khan, Molloy University

• John White, University of North Florida