Composite Counterstories~Memoir~Oral Histories~Ethnography with Young Children

This is a continuation of dialogue on pushing methodological boundaries as we continue to research on the counternarratives of curriculum of schools, neighborhoods, and communities in the U. S. South. In this session, a group of researchers present their dissertation works-in-progress. These researchers use composite counterstories (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002; Yosso, 2006; also, He & Ross, 2012; He, Ross, & Seay, 2015), memoir (Barrington, 1997; Birkerts, 2008; Ledoux, 1993; Roorbach, 2008; Zinsser, 1995, 2004), oral histories (Brown, 1988; Leavy, 2011; Ritchie, 2003) and ethnography (Clifford, 1977, 1988, 1997; Clifford & Marcus, 1986/2010; Madison, 2020; Marcus, 1998; Spradley, 1979, 1980; Van Maanen, 1988, 1995; Wolcott, 1999/2008) with young children as forms of curriculum inquiry into a wide array of topics such as Black skin, darkened curriculum: the Black children’s experience of mainstream schooling in racialized systems in the U. S. South; a memoir: being mixed, Black and Filipino, and multiracial in the U. S. South Georgia middle school; oral histories of Willow Hill Elementary--a historically Black school in Georgia; hyphenated identity and negotiated intersectionality: a memoir of a firstgeneration Nigerian-American male teacher in an inner city Title I elementary school in Georgia; educating Black males in Black-lives-matter movement space; counterstories: Back male teachers in rural Georgia; hearing silent voices: counternarratives of African American students overrepresented in special education programs in urban schools in Georgia; developing the culturally responsive/relevant/sustaining third-grade social studies curriculum: an ethnographic inquiry; doing ethnographic research with young children through multicultural children literature. These researchers explore creative ways to push methodological boundaries, perform dissertation writing and liberate academic writing by diving into life, writing into contradictions, and living against oppressions in schools, families, and communities in the U. S. South. Theoretical traditions and modes of expression are particularly explored. Innovative writings engendered from the inquiries will be demonstrated. Potentials, challenges, and future directions of creative inquiries and representations will be discussed

Pushing Methodological Boundaries~Liberating Academic Writing

In this symposium, multiethnic researchers from Georgia Southern University’s Ed. D. in Curriculum Studies program explore creative ways to push methodological and representational boundaries to liberate dissertation writing by diving into life and writing into contradiction in schools, families, and communities in the U. S. South. Through visual/graphic/multimedia presentations, reader’s theater, fictional narrative, freedom songs, poems, spoken word, drama, and play, the presenters will illustrate diverse forms of dissertation research and representations such as cultural studies/multipersectival cultural studies, critical geography/critical dis/ability studies, critical race narrative inquiry, personal~passionate~participatory inquiry, auto/biographical inquiry/currere, critical narrative inquiry, cross-cultural narrative inquiry, narrative multicultural inquiry, critical race photographic narrative inquiry, critical multiracial/mixed racial fictional auto/biographical inquiry, ethnographical inquiry, visual methodologies, visual/digital/sensory ethnography, visual/performative/graphic/picture/fictional narrative, photovoice, soundwalk, mobile podcasting, geotagging, poetic inquiry, womanist currere, critical portraiture, oral history, aesthetic/art-based inquiry, counternarrative, subaltern, indigenous, documentary, critical geography, speculative essay, speculative fiction, speculative memoir, speculative play, speculative poetry, and painting. Innovative writings engendered from the inquiries will be also demonstrated. Potentials, challenges, and future directions of various inquiries and representations are also discussed. Individual Presentations Within the Session: Presentation #1: Push Methodological Boundaries~Performing Dissertation Research~Liberating Academic Writing Ming Fang He & Peggy Shannon-Baker, Georgia Southern University Presentation #2: Teaching with Passion and Compassion in An Era of Fear, Injustice, and Political Uncertainty: A Narrative Inquiry into Elementary Teachers’ Experience in Georgia Erin Scroggs, Georgia Southern University Presentation #3: Black Skin, Darkened Curriculum: The Black Children’s Experience of Mainstream Schooling in Racialized Systems in the U. S. South Chanda Hadiman, Georgia Southern University Presentation #4: A Memoir: Being Mixed, Black And Filipino, and Multiracial in the U. S. South Georgia Middle School Nicole Moss, Georgia Southern University Presentation #5: “Their HighestPotential:” Oral Histories of Willow Hill Elementary--A Historically Black School in Georgia Laquanda Love, Georgia Southern University Presentation #6: Black Mothers, Black Sons: A Memoir Alethea Coleman, Georgia Southern University Presentation #7: Hyphenated Identity and Negotiated Intersectionality: A Memoir of A First-Generation Nigerian-American Male Teacher in An Inner City Title I Elementary School in Georgia Gerald Nwachukwu, Georgia Southern University Presentation #8: Educating Black Males in Black-Lives-Matter Movement Space Kimberly Hollis, Georgia Southern University Presentation #9: Counterstories: Black Male Teachers in Rural Georgia Brittany Jones-Turman, Georgia Southern University Presentation #10: Dissertation-Works-in-Progress Amanda Gonzales, Janet Cooks, Carmen Baker, Andrea Cramsey, Khristian Cooper, Lucia Benzor, Marianna Louise Anderson, and Cynthia Smith, Georgia Southern Universit