Kumashiro reading sample
Kumashiro AntiOppressive Frames
Critical conceptual vocabulary to explore in this text:
Othering and Oppression
Troubling, Disrupting, and Queering Education
Reading, Storying, and Re-reading
Partiality and Openness
The Crisis of Troubling Knowledge and Process for Restorying
Reading Questions
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- In the introduction to this text, there is much thought put into the relationship between identity and knowledge. The author discusses how he embodies troubling identities to the classroom as he is a queer educator. Have you reflected on the identities you embody in relation to the knowledge you represent and your own existence as the teacher?
- When you look at the four theories and practices of anti-oppressive education which of the for feels the most familiar to your work? Which is the least familiar?
- When thinking about identity, culture, and oppression, what stands out for you in this text? Does this offer you new ways of thinking about oppression?
- The relationship between resistance and activism is discussed in this text. Do these ideas offer something new to you in the sense of what students need to experience in the classroom?
- What forms of resistance do you deliberate in your work toward an anti-oppressive curriculum and pedagogy?
- Kumashiro’s text presumes action, advocacy and activism as the aspects teaching. Heffernan and Gutierez-Schmich have been enacting elements of this scholarship in a model of Public Pedagogy for the past 10 years. This linked article explores how the concepts within this work have been enacted within teacher education to address gender identity and sexual orientation Othering in education. Teacher Activism: Queer Critical Concepts in Education
