For this first day in March, I’m sharing more reflections regarding my first year at Teachers College as a doctoral student in education. I have recently been reading Deleuze and Guattari’s works, along with that of Erin Manning on the minor gesture and will share some of my sense-making process. And as always, I’m sharing original photographs taken during strolls through New York City…
Read moreThe Production of Differences in Schools and How Educators Can Disrupt Them
I’m sharing another original piece of academic writing for a course I took at Teachers College. As part of this course on gender, difference, and curriculum, we read a diverse set of books, articles on theory, as well as articles of empirical studies. My essay is an integrative one, in which I tried to draw on a wide range of theorists and practitioners to describe how differences are produced via school curricula, ideas of “normal”, and structures/traditions…
Read moreA Curricular Project: Queering Science Education
I’m sharing with you a curricular project titled “Queering Science Education” that I pursued as part of my coursework for a gender, difference and curriculum course at Teachers College. For this project, I am using concepts from Queer Theory to begin to re-imagine and re-conceptualize science education to make it more interdisciplinary, more inclusive, more accessible, and outside the bounds of “standard” or “normal” traditional science education….
Read moreTaking Academic Risks in Graduate School: A Second Doctoral Paper
I’m devoting this blog entry to the process of writing an academic paper—a process that involves risk-taking, which is not comfortable, but is valuable. It is a process that pushes you and actually allows you to achieve a state of clarity at the end. I look back on this paper now and I smile. I have many, many other papers to write, which feels daunting at the present moment; however, I know I can do it, because I have done it before, and it will only get easier and more comfortable because I already went through the initial stage of discomfort… In the end, I told myself that the grade would not matter, because I persevered and I learned…
Read moreWriting for Graduate School: My First Doctoral Seminar Paper
So far as a first year doctoral student, I have written and submitted six papers for three separate courses… As part of the “book smarts” section of this blog, I thought it might be worthwhile for me to share my original writing from my graduate school journey, along with whatever pieces I manage to dig up from old hard-drives from my college days. Perhaps this will help you gain some more insights into the academic life as a college student and scholarly life as a brand new doctoral student in education…
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