May 16-19, 2013
Break-out Sessions Presentations
Eugene Brosseau The Colonization of Art Education: How the Imposition of the Common Core State Standards Initiative Disrupts an Otherwise Natural Path to Human Understanding and Values
Doug Morris Pedagogy in Catastrophic Times
Yvette M. Powe Reimaging: Higher Education for Profit
Mivhael Mindzak Volunteering, Unpaid Labor, and Employment: Challenging the Assalt on New Teacher in Ontario
Patricia Briscoe The Power of Conformity: Stories from the Field of Teaching
Carolyn M. Shields A Critical Examination of Today’s “Undemocratic” Reform Agenda: The Case of Michigan
Greg Queen Standards-Based Education, Social Justice and Class Struggle
Amanda Kallenback Politics, Government Intervention in School Systems, and Cultural Relations among People of Urban Areas
C. Greg Jorgensen Who Is At the Head of the Class: Students? Teachers? Or, Corporate America?
Lance E. Mason The Public Pedagogy and Habits of Punk Rock Music
Jean Ann Foley A Teacher’s Voice, A Performance Piece
Barbara Rose Heuberger Earning Our Outrage: Moving from Awareness to Collective and Systematic Action in Higher Education
Chloie Stelton “Inquiry in the Midst”: a radical analysis of teacher education from a critical undergraduate lens
Mahtab Nazemi Student Activists Know Best: The trials and tribulations of anti-racists organizing at a predominantly white and wealthy Canadian Unversity
Pamela Rogers To ‘raise the bar’ or ‘close the gap’: International Baccalaureate program expansion and neoliberal curriculum reform in Atlantic Canada
Hiba Kahil ElHajj The Home, Culturally and Linguistically diverse students, and the Unequal public Schools
Jeff Bale Linguistic Justice at School
Paula Meyer Linguistic Imperialism in the United States
Doug Morris Protest Music: Sing Along
Rich Gibson Why Are Things as They Are? What Explains the US’ National Hysterical Conversion Crisis? Why is Resistance so Mindless it Represents Ghost Dance After Ghost Dance? Capitalism Must Be Overcome–Finding a Pathway Through Barbarism Connecting Reason to Power in Education