Acknowledgements
Thank you, @TPLWC and @remikalir, for this wonderful and deeply timely experiment! As I told @remikalir on Twitter, this was so beautifully therapeutic for me - like a glass of cold water after a day in the desert :)
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- Mar 2017
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We must collectively develop peer-review criteria and new genres of publications that allow us to swiftly and rigorously engage the intersections between learning and the most pressing political issues of our time
How about asking our journals and conferences to add a peer review component about the political positioning (explicit or implicit) of each submission? If we make it a part of the review process, it will push even the reluctant towards considering its importance...
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what we count as knowledge, what we ask questions about, and how we answer those questions are not value-free; people benefit and suffer, differentially based on their positionality, as a result of these decisions.
This is so deeply crucial to all our endeavors - I wonder if we might be able to rephrase this as a question for graduate student quals/prelims in our various institutions?
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Our collective expertise as a field uniquely links scales of analysis (socio-cultural, ontogenetic, micro-genetic) and, we believe, can enable us to address the powered and political purposes, contexts, and consequences of learning
This gives me hope! But also, reminds me that we need to be able to communicate outside of our field(s) and more directly influence politics, education, and society. So we need to also hone our ability to write newspaper articles, op eds, and blog posts, and speak on television shows and radio...
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Research on learning is deepened when the complexities of culture, race, identity and power are treated as central to robust empirical analysis
This made me think of Gutiérrez's (2002) brilliant piece about mathematics education and equity, and how not having an equitable educational system distinctly harms the field of mathematics: "The assumption is that certain people will gain from having mathematics in their lives, as opposed to the field of mathematics will gain from having these people in its field."
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the belief that equitable and just outcomes are natural byproducts of exacting research is untenable
I have a quotation board in my office - this will be the newest one - I hope it provokes many wonderful conversations with my colleagues and students!
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The specter of hostile governmental policies compels us to build on and expand scholarship that starts from the premise that learning, equity, and justice are inextricable (Radinsky & Tabak, in press).
I think this phrase could very well be that "learning, equity, justice, and science are inextricable" - reflecting upon contexts, biases, and current practices are necessary for us to advance sciences of all sorts, not just LS.
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scholarly stance against indifference
This will be the phrase I chant to myself when I find myself tired of pushing back - my new call to arms!
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An exclusive focus on access
It seems that one of the difficulties with "access" is that it may be easier to place the blame of failure more squarely on the student's shoulders, and avoid reflecting upon what in the structure supported the failure.
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In the U.S., the dominant mantra has been that the road to an equitable democracy might be slow and bumpy, but we have come a long way as a nation in our pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness for all.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” MLK Jr.
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engaging issues of culture, identity, race, and power more visibly in their work
Ever since November, I have been torn between my vision of myself as a learning scientist who seeks to understand these and engage with these issues as a mentor, colleague, and friend, but does not explicitly address/incorporate/entangle/acknowledge them in her work; and my vision of myself as someone who lives in the here and now, and must bind up everything I do with these issues in order to fight back against those who say that these issues do not exist in our society. I think that the election was a watershed moment for me, when I finally really felt many things that my privilege has protected me from.
I had a longstanding vision of where my research and career and scholarly identity were going, but now I know that I am but a coward if I continue upon that path...
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U.S. voters helped elect a president who overtly and implicitly built a campaign founded on hate and bigotry
I know it's been months, but this phrase still breaks my heart...
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