Embodied/Embedded Spaces Where Memory Resides

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This collection of papers examines the role of memory in shaping our research and teaching practices. We examine memory with and in relation to various methodological traditions including critical autoethnography, youth participatory action research, and critical analysis of poetry. We answer the questions, “How do present circumstances catalyze ‘hauntings’ of memory and vice versa?” “What is forgotten or missing from memory that lingers in our peripheries nonetheless?” “What does this say about the perspectives we bring to our work about education?” We draw forth implications for the ways memories can guide us toward recalibrating our commitments to education and social justice in a neoliberal academic world.

Sub Track

• Social Context of Education

Individual Presentations

• Eureka Moments in Critical Autoethnography: Embedded Ontology/Epistemology Collides with Ontological/Epistemological Expectations - Gresilda Tilley-Lubbs, Virginia Tech University

• Ghosts from The Past: Hauntings in Participatory Research for Courageous Social Re-Imaginations - Patricia Krueger-Henney, University of Massachusetts Boston

• When the Research Site Disrupts Embedded Traumatic Memory: (Reluctantly) Sharing Memories of School Violence with an Adolescent Research Participant - Jennifer Sink McCloud, Transylvania University

• Triggering the Spotlight: Memory and the Researcher/Practitioner Gaze - Tricia M. Kress, University of Massachusetts Boston

• Examining Immigrant Student Identity Formation through Poetry - Rong Bai Chang, Virginia Tech University