The Spaces of Pedagogy: Reticulations of Participation, Engagement, and Action

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The papers in this symposium all conceptualize spaces of pedagogic practice and present frameworks that reticulate the terms of pedagogy, participation, engagement, and action, that is reflexive about the politics of knowledge and inquiry, that undoes the ways in which institutions govern what is properly desirable [and doable] in pedagogic spaces, and that hopes to achieve transformative effects. We argue for a multiplicity of interpretive tools that can attend to the complexities of how to make sense of our present conditions and constraints associated with economic retrenchment and attacks on public institutions while still being alert to potential openings that might affirm spaces that sustain and provoke educational possibilities.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 5: Place and Praxis (The Places of Curriculum)

Chair

• Hannah M. Tavares, University of Hawaii - Manoa

Papers

• On Cultivating Reflexivity Relationally - Mary Chang, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Point of Entry: Crossing Borders—Both Real and Perceived—in the University - Cathy Kanoelani Ikeda, University of Hawaii - West Oahu

• Pedagogical Possibilities of Becoming and the Transitional Space - Amy Sojot, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Dangerous Liaisons: Metonymic Effects Between School/ing and Education - David W. Kupferman, University of Hawaii West Oahu

• Leading Something Transformative? Public Scholars and the "Subject of History" Problem - Hannah M. Tavares, University of Hawaii - Manoa

Discussant

• Marek Tesar, The University of Auckland