Faculty and students in the School of Education are gathering to discuss and learn with one another about our shared interests in sociocultural and critical studies in education. A series of Dialogues is planned for Fall 2003 and this website will support our work together with Announcements, Bibliographies, and Links to papers and other resources.
Some of the fields and topics in which we share interests include:
· the application of sociocultural theory to education
· issues of diversity, social justice, and power relationships in education and society
· qualitative research, ethnographic methods, discourse analysis and multimedia
· feminist theory, gender/sexuality issues, post-colonial theory, critical race theory
· interpretative paradigms, hermeneutics, postmodernist perspectives
· issues of social class, culture, hegemony, and conflict in education
· building connections across the micro- and macro-social, the local and the global
· understanding marginalized or divergent perspectives on education and society
· issues relating student and community culture to school culture and identity
Many of us read and find value in the theoretical perspectives of scholars such as Foucault, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Geertz, Latour, Haraway, Halliday, Bateson, Gee, Baudrillard, deCerteau, Butler, Jameson, Bhabha, Hall, and many others outside as well as inside the field of education. To this partial list we will want to add the names of more feminist scholars, scholars of color, and scholars working beyond the European-American academic tradition.