Analyzing Rituals of Subjection in K-12 Schooling

• In Event: Counter Points and Counter Stories: The Long Struggle of Resistance

Abstract

This paper begins to map the struggle for educational justice and a different world onto the terrain of ritual interaction. I begin from crucial theoretical categories and concepts in the field of critical and emancipatory education, using them as markers to where we might further explore the relations they represent. Such a move can help us see the key moments in the contemporary sociocultural landscape where community is at play, where identities and solidarities are forged, and the key moments where we might yet intervene, as activists, policy makers, teachers, or as humans in the world trying to find a life worth living. In this way I hope to extend the conversation around emancipatory education to an important register where domination and the struggle for liberation is taking place.

Author

• Adam Martinez, Texas A&M - San Antonio