Ontologies of Promise: Cultivating Equity

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The Call for Proposals for the 2022 AERA Annual Conference evokes submissions asking how Foucault and other contemporary theorists can help us to cultivate more equitable education systems. We approach this session not from the standpoint of asking questions that offer the same well-worn solutions, but as an articulation of the becoming nature of pedagogy, inquiry, and teacher professional development. Drawing on the vitalist proclivities of Deleuze and Guattari, Manning, Whitehead, Peirce, Kirby, Sharpe and others, the presenters consider the ontological stakes of such an approach in a recentering of stories, pedagogies, and inquiry as acts of creation toward cultivating equity.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Education

Chair

• Lisa A. Mazzei, University of Oregon

Papers

• Minor Pedagogy: Ontogenetic Orientations - Laura Elizabeth Smithers, University of Nevada - Reno; Lisa A. Mazzei, University of Oregon

• A Uniquely Posthuman Logic of Inference: Moving Beyond Reductio Ad Absurdum Reasoning in the Empirical Social Sciences - Scott L. Pratt, University of Oregon; Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon

• "And Yet the Dawn Is Ours Before We Knew It": Desire and Radical Hope - Alexander B. Pratt, Pennsylvania State University - Altoona

• Teacher Education and Professional Development "in the Wake" of Black Lives Matter: Ontogenic Possibilities - MaryJohn R. Adkins-Cartee, University of Oregon

Discussant

• Lisa A. Mazzei, University of Oregon