Tales from the Contact Zone: Mobilizing Expertise

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

A contact zone is a “social space where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power.” This presentation uses a contact zone frame to examine technology’s role in learning to mobilize expertise, decentralize knowledge and disrupt. Presenters span contexts: urban, suburban, and rural spaces in elementary, middle, and college classrooms with students, teachers, and pre-service educators; as well as a variety of tools, platforms, and pedagogies.

Content Area

• Area 11: Research Theory, Methods, and Practices

Chair

• Julie Rust, Millsaps College

Discussant

• Nicholas Husbye, University of Missouri—St. Louis

Individual Presentations

• Mobilizing “Truth-Telling” from Page to Screen to Body: Storying Across Modes and Contexts - Julie Rust, Millsaps College

• Mobilizing Un-“Schooly” Identities: A Covert Classroom Writing Community Emerges Online - Beth Buchholz, Appalachian State University

• Mobilizing Expertise in a School-Based Literacy Clinic Experience - Nicholas Husbye, University of Missouri—St. Louis

• Mobilizing Minilessons for Curricular Change: Shared Expertise in a Reading Workshop Teacher Study Group - Christy Wessel Powell, Indiana University