Power and Schooling (Part One)
Titles of Presentations in a Panel
The Weaponization of Standardized Testing in Education - Juan Mora, Georgia Southern University
The Blind Teaching the Blind: Power Structures Hold on Education - Erika Reid, Georgia Southern University
Principalities and Education, A Catholic Response to Inequalities in Education - Anthony Thomason, Georgia Southern University
Abstract
Power is all around us. It transforms every relationship, it impacts every decision, and yet it is impossible to predict, define, and capture. We can point to the way power moves and influences, but we cannot codify it in any permanent way. In this session, we discuss several different ways that power seeps into the classrooms. Social expectations, standardized testing, and the narratives around schooling represent some of the levers that assert a set of assumptions and priorities in educational spaces. These ideas seep into the social body and the individual bodies and minds, as well. Impulsive resistance is pathologized or criminalized. But, in naming the power structures, they become observable, knowable and a more organized counterstory becomes possible.
Presentation Description
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Location
Room 107
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Thomason, Anthony; Mora, Juan; and Reid, Erika, "Power and Schooling (Part One)" (2022). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 2.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2022/2022/2
Power and Schooling (Part One)
Room 107
Power is all around us. It transforms every relationship, it impacts every decision, and yet it is impossible to predict, define, and capture. We can point to the way power moves and influences, but we cannot codify it in any permanent way. In this session, we discuss several different ways that power seeps into the classrooms. Social expectations, standardized testing, and the narratives around schooling represent some of the levers that assert a set of assumptions and priorities in educational spaces. These ideas seep into the social body and the individual bodies and minds, as well. Impulsive resistance is pathologized or criminalized. But, in naming the power structures, they become observable, knowable and a more organized counterstory becomes possible.
