Dissertation Journeys of Scholar-Practitioners in an Educational Leadership for Social Justice Program

The task of guiding the development of scholar-practitioners as leaders for social justice is inherently challenging. The dissertation journey, unlike any other journey practitioner-based doctoral students face in urban school settings, provides a steep learning curve as they transition from practitioner to scholar-practitioner. This journey challenges doctoral students, particularly those who represent the marginalized students they serve, as they begin to understand their personal history, how they view themselves, how they view others, and the ethical and political issues (Creswell, 2013) they face as their thinking shifts from that of a mere practitioner to that of a scholar-practitioner. This collection of case studies on dissertation research emerged from the collective work of faculty, students, and program graduates of the Educational Leadership for Social Justice Doctoral Program at California State University at East Bay. As we examine the development of scholar-practitioners’ research, we consider the role of faculty in supporting not merely the research, but more importantly the work to pursue more equitable outcomes in schools and society. The selected cases represent the complex task of preparing scholar-practitioners to lead for social justice

Critical Media Literacy in the Time of Lies

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and the truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world – and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end – is being destroyed. arendt, 1973, p. 14 … But most people use social media not to unite, not to open their horizons wider, but on the contrary, to cut themselves a comfort zone wher

Backwoods Boys and their Hick-Hop and Indigenous Hip-Hop Culture

This presentation discusses the manifestations of White Working Class Pride through the analysis of Hick-Hop (Rural Rap) music. The historical development of Hick-Hop music and its connections to Hip-Hop will be analyzed. There will be an examination of representative examples of Hick-Hop including Bubba Sparks, Cypress Spring, The Lacs and Jawga Boyz to demonstrate the characteristics of Hick-Hop, white-pride, and the politics of working class empowerment. (Reynolds) The purpose of this presentation is to capture how cultural forms and activities of several Indigenous Hip-Hop artists in Canada formulate a revolutionary pedagogical project dedicated to self-empowerment, to subverting settler colonialism, and to building a social order free from hate, hostility, and inequality. The study is a qualitative case study focusing on the cultural practices and activities generated by several leading Hip-Hop Indigenous intellectuals in Canada, including Ostwelve, Dakota Bear, Joey Stylez, and Jb the First Lady. The chief source of data comes a documentary produced on Indigenous Hip-Hop culture during the winter of 2020. In total, almost 16 hours of footage was generated from workshops, rallies and protests, artistic performances, and community-based activities launched by several Indigenous Hip-Hop artists and community members. (Porfilio

Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century: A New Generation of Scholars

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset of a much larger movement for critical transformation and a more humane, less Eurocentric, less paternalistic, less homophobic, less patriarchical, less exploitative, and less violent world. This volume highlights the finding that rigorous critical pedagogical approaches to education, while still marginalized in many contexts, are being used in increasingly more classrooms for the benefit of student learning, contributing, however indirectly, to the larger struggle against the barbarism of industrial, neoliberal, militarized destructiveness.https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/coefaculty_books/1005/thumbnail.jp

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Parents’ want their voices to “matter”: Perspectives on school enrollment in a shrinking urban school district

The purpose of this study is to examine the school selection process of parents whose children attended an urban school district in Northern California. Like numerous urban school districts across the United States, the district highlighted in this study also encountered students exiting its schools for the past decade. The findings shared in this paper from a mixed methods case study of parents whose children attend school in the district. Data were based on a quantitative survey and qualitative focus groups. The data indicate parents consider several key factors when selecting schools for their children including academics, class size, and differentiated instruction and support for their children; the school and administration’s relationship to diversity and the community; and the overall enrollment process. The parents’ narratives also revealed educational leaders must create a culturally relevant learning community in order to ensure parents, students, and community stakeholders will garner the support, resources, curricula, and learning activities to stop the exodus of children from schools within the school district

Whiteness in the Backwoods: Critical Media Literacy, Reality TV and Hick-Hop Music

From Honey Boo Boo to T.I and Tiny: What Reality Television has Taught Us about Whiteness Danielle Ligocki –Oakland University Reality television shows appear to have a limitless reach. Not only have we seen an unprecedented 7900% increase in the number of reality television shows on air from 2000 to 2010 (Ocasio, 2010), but the type of people who participate (for example, current and former presidents) and the variety of people that we see seems to have no limits. In this time of endless choices and shows that are readily available at our fingertips, what messages are we really taking away from these shows? What are reality shows teaching their viewers – specifically, their young viewers – about race and identity? Hick-Hop, Dirt Roads, Camouflage, Lift-Kit Trucks and John Deere: Rural White Working Class Pride William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University & Brad Porfilio, Seattle University There has been extensive research done on whiteness over the last decades (Kincheloe & Steinberg, 2000; Sleeter, 2016 & Matias, 2016). During the 2016 presidential election, white rural identity became one of the cornerstones of Donald Trump’s campaign. Although the embrace of white working class was for Trump a lie, it did give white nationalists (alt-right) a sense of empowerment. Attempting to understand that sense of empowerment and pride, this presentation discusses the manifestations of White Working Class Pride through the analysis of Hick-Hop music. The historical development of hick-hop music and its connections to hip-hop will be discussed. There will be an analysis of representative examples of Hick-Hop including Bubba Sparks and Jawga Boyz to demonstrate the characteristics of Hick-hop. The connections among Hick-Hop, white pride and the politics of working class empowerment concludes the presentation. Kincheloe, J. L. & Steinberg, S. R. (Eds.). (2000). White Reign: Deploying whiteness in America. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin. Matias, C. L. (2016). Feeling white: Whiteness, emotionality, and education. Sleeter, C. E. & Carmona, J. F. (2106). Un-Standardizing curriculum: Multicultural teaching in the standards-based classroom (2nd Ed.). New York: Teachers College Press

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Leaders for Justice Restoring Dignity in Urban Schools Through the Narratives of Black and Latinx Parents

Roundtable presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (Conference cancelled due to Covid-19) A pernicious trend in urban education in the US is an exodus of children from schools. This has resulted in declining resources, teacher and staff layoffs, and cash-poor and land rich school districts. To understand what is responsible for this trend as well as to recognize how leaders for social justice may improve educational outcomes for students, the researchers launched a mixed-method study with African-American and Latinx parents whose children attended a large urban school district with declining enrollment. The paper shares the parents’ narratives generated in focus group sessions. The narratives revealed improving academic offerings, reducing class size, increasing school staff, fostering humanistic relationships and embracing diversity are essential for restoring dignity in urban schools and stopping declining enrollmen