Dissertation Studies: Speculative Essays
Abstract
In this session on pushing methodological boundaries, a group of researchers present their dissertation studies. These researchers use speculative essays as a form of curriculum inquiry (Schubert, 1991) to theorize and to persuade with a wide array of topics such as deschooling schooled minds; schooled to educate but not to profit? the political economy of education; if Black males could thrive: letters to our Black sons in white America through the works of James Baldwin; culturally contested curriculum? developing culturally sustaining pedagogy for African American students through the classical education? These researchers explore creative ways to push methodological boundaries, perform dissertation writing, and liberate academic writing by theoretically diving into life and writing into contradiction in schools, families, and communities in the U. S. South. The presenters will illustrate diverse ways of incorporating personal narrative, counternarratives, drawings, poetry, and fiction into their speculative essays. Theoretical traditions and modes of expression are particularly explored. Innovative writings engendered from composing speculative essays are demonstrated. Potentials, challenges, and future directions of speculative essays and its representations are also discussed.
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Burns-Graziano, Kelly; Schmidt, Gregory; Foy, Tony; Negley, Mary; Schubert, William; Weaver, John; and Schultz, Brian, "Dissertation Studies: Speculative Essays" (2021). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 76.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2021/2021/76
Dissertation Studies: Speculative Essays
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In this session on pushing methodological boundaries, a group of researchers present their dissertation studies. These researchers use speculative essays as a form of curriculum inquiry (Schubert, 1991) to theorize and to persuade with a wide array of topics such as deschooling schooled minds; schooled to educate but not to profit? the political economy of education; if Black males could thrive: letters to our Black sons in white America through the works of James Baldwin; culturally contested curriculum? developing culturally sustaining pedagogy for African American students through the classical education? These researchers explore creative ways to push methodological boundaries, perform dissertation writing, and liberate academic writing by theoretically diving into life and writing into contradiction in schools, families, and communities in the U. S. South. The presenters will illustrate diverse ways of incorporating personal narrative, counternarratives, drawings, poetry, and fiction into their speculative essays. Theoretical traditions and modes of expression are particularly explored. Innovative writings engendered from composing speculative essays are demonstrated. Potentials, challenges, and future directions of speculative essays and its representations are also discussed.
