14.019 - Sediments of Trans in Educational Research: As Noun, Verb, Prefix, and Adjective

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The etymology of trans, rooted in the Greek language as meaning “across from” or “on the other side of,” has been taken up broadly in linguistic mapping as noun, verb, prefix, and/or adjective in different contexts, and for different purposes and outcomes. Beneficiaries of its iterative temporality, educational research is a conduit to its growing spatialization as it sediments across theory, epistemology, methodology, policy and practice. We see its representations manifest in ways that cut across or go between, go over or beyond or away from, and/or return to spaces, places and/or identities; its elasticity galvanizes a constant integration of new ideas and concepts resulting in an emergence of new knowledges. Trans is thereby multitudinous—a moving away or a refusal to accept essentialized constructions of spaces, binaries, ideas, genders, bodies, or identities, etc. Scholars in this session demonstrate how trans informs and/or animates their work in these different ways: As Frontera, Nationalism, Modernism, and in K-12 Teacher Education, Policy, and Practice.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Participants

• Sofia A. Villenas, Cornell University

• Cindy Cruz, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Pierre W. Orelus, New Mexico State University

• sj Miller, NYU Steinhardt - The Metropolitan Center