“Pedagogies of Power: Mobilizing Community Ways of Knowing, Being, and Teaching”

4th Annual Cultural Studies in Education Conference

Hosted by the Cultural Studies in Education Graduate Student Council

Cultural Studies in Education Program

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

College of Education (SZB)

University of Texas at Austin

Date: April 11,  2015

The theme, “Pedagogies of Power: Mobilizing Community Ways of Knowing, Being, and Teaching,” aims to draw attention to the array of powerful pedagogical practices being deployed within diverse educational community spaces in and outside of traditional schooling institutions. Knowing, being, and teaching are all transformative processes that require critical understandings of ourselves in relation to our communities. This conference seeks to explore how liberatory teaching and learning practices mobilize communities to work together for social justice.

We welcome proposals from diverse fields to provide insights on your work as a teacher, researcher, activist, and community leader. In light of the social justice movements across the United States, Mexico, and beyond, we believe it is a critical time to consider the following questions:

1. What does empowerment look like in your field/area of work, community, or educational space? 

2. How can we reconceive education as a communal rather than individual endeavor?

3. How can acts of inspiration, collaboration, solidarity, and courage support mobilization efforts

that promote these pedagogies of power in our educational communities?

We encourage the examination of the social, cultural, political, economic, historical, linguistic, and psychological influences in educational contexts from those involved in education in any form.

Possible topics include:

● Emancipatory education

● New Common School movement

● Democratization and democracy in education

● Effects/implications of neoliberal movement/ideologies on pedagogy

● Student/community activist movements and organizing

● Youth popular culture(s)

● Immigrant youth, their families, and communities

● Identity constructions

● Disability and education

● Physical education

● Arts education

● Literature and education

● Decolonial epistemologies

● Educational programs within communities

● Adult/continuing education

Guidelines for Proposal Submission

Submit your proposal via email (utaustincse@gmail.com) by our priority deadline February 7, 2015 or our second deadline February 14, 2015. 

Include the following information: Title, abstract (150-250) words, presentation format, equipment, and/or accommodations needed for the presentation. This conference is intended to provide a space for students, and community members and organizations to present research focusing on education. It is also intended to provide students an opportunity to gain experience in the process of submitting, preparing, and presenting research at an academic conference. Most importantly, the conference aims to support all participants in all capacities, whether they are

emotional, spiritual, and/or academic.

You may present your research in one of the following formats:

● A course paper you intend to expand as a conference paper or to submit for publication to as a

journal article

● A paper being presented at an upcoming conference (use this space to practice)

● A draft of a chapter from your dissertation

● An idea you seek to develop and/or incorporate to your research

● A workshop in which participants explore topics related to theme of the conference

● A multimedia presentation

● Artistic or creative responses to the questions and topics listed above

● A roundtable where you discuss one or more of the proposed topics

This list is partial and is intended to provide suggestions on presentation formats. Be sure to include the

format of your presentation in your proposal abstract.

You will receive information about your proposal status and any other pertaining conference information through email by March 7, 2015.