29.071 - Communist Study: Theorizing and Enacting the Pedagogy of Critical Pedagogy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Critical pedagogy today tends to focus predominantly on being critical; on understanding, analyzing, and explaining our contemporary political moment. This is absolutely crucial for emancipatory education. What this symposium seeks to do, however, is to turn to the question of pedagogy, and to ask what it means to engage in pedagogical acts from a variety of theoretical and political standpoints. It primarily asks after the importance of an overlooked yet subversive educational act and logic: study. Each paper develops a conception of communist study that is rooted in and oriented toward contemporary social struggles against capitalist exploitation, alienation, and dispossession. The symposium is conducted through a conversation between emerging and leading theorists in critical pedagogy, who occupy different subject positions.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation

Chair

• Bradley J. Porfilio, Seattle University

Papers

• The April 1 Shutdown and Anticapitalist Struggle in the United States - Michelle Gautreaux, The University of British Columbia

• Student Activism: Building an Alternative Logic in Opposition to Corporatized Learning - Sandra Ximena Delgado Betancourth, University of British Columbia

• Articulating the Taking-Place of Study Whatever Through Heidegger's Thinking on Language and Chinese Dao - Weili Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Technocapitalism and Race: Toward a Binary of Whiteness - Zane Wubbena, Texas State University

Discussants

• Peter L. McLaren, Chapman University

• Derek R. Ford, DePauw University

• Ana Lucia Cruz, Saint Louis Community College