CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS (with links to their papers):
Lesley Bartlett (Teachers College, Columbia University):
Shaming as Instruction: The Politics of Literacy and Language in Brazil
Bartlett reports on Brazilian women struggling to avoid and overcome what they experience as the shame of illiteracy, in part by enrolling in adult literacy programs.
Grey Gundaker (College of William and Mary):
Hidden Education among Enslaved African Americans
Gundaker reminds us of the efforts of slaves in early America to teach themselves how to read on the way to learning about the world into which they were thrust and the place they might make for themselves when their masters were not watching.
Ilana Gershon (Emerson College):
Outraged Indigenes and Nostalgic Migrants: Maori and Samoan Performances in Cultural Festivals
Gershon looks at the impact of the redefinition of New Zealand as “Aotearoa/New Zealand,” a bicultural (Maori/Pakeha) nation in which people from Samoa and other Pacific islands must now express themselves.
Tracy Johnson. (Development and Training Services, Inc):
Enclothing Identity: A Hmong Girl's Journey into the Politics of Identification in Thailand
Johnson presents Hmong girls who, as they move through their wardrobes, discover the global world within which they are beginning to make their lives.
Anne Lorimer (Reed College):
‘Why I did not become a pilot’: Teaching Career Cossibilities in a Chicago Museum
Lorimer then broadens our perspective by showing how a Chicago museum exhibit is an occasion for deliberate efforts to learn and teach–both for the curators and for the visitors. The final two papers move us to a broader stage where large populations struggle with the new conditions they have made for themselves, and the new uncertainties that technological and political developments produce.
James Mullooly (California State University, Fresno):
Disciplining those who Discipline in a Jesuit Middle School
Mullooly asks a related one: how do school administrators maintain the threatened reputation of their school? He takes us into the faculty meetings of a Jesuit Middle School for Mexican migrants in the upper Middle West.
Portia Sabin (South Puget Sound Community College):
On Sentimental Education among College Students
Sabin asks a question of much greater import than it might appear: where, when, and how, do people in America find out about “friendship” and “love”? To answer this, she takes us into the world of college students in a freshman dorm.
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi (University of California, Berkeley): Pathmaking and pathfinding: The education of youth travelers across the urban landscape
Seyer-Ochi follows African American youths in San Francisco navigating the city and making their own paths through it.
Alison Stratton (Qinnipiac University):
Making people hard of hearing in Sweden: Educating about and for Pathology
Stratton sketches the complexity of the settings for educational efforts that modern technologies offer for those who, as they age in Sweden, find it harder to hear, or to be acknowledged as hearing.
Hervé Varenne (Teachers College, Columbia University)