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….
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