Power and Schooling (Part Two)
Titles of Presentations in a Panel
The Myth of Liberatory Education: Using Schools to Maintain the Dominant Culture - Amber Colechin, Georgia Southern University
The Classroom as a Microcosm: A Discussion on Power, Gender, and Social Expectations - Jennifer Lawson, 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 109
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Colechin, Amber and Lawson, Jennifer, "Power and Schooling (Part Two)" (2022). Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative. 53.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cssc/2022/2022/53
Power and Schooling (Part Two)
Room 109
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.
