I am back from AERA in Vancouver and settling into everyday life with new insights about literacy, space and community activism. I even met a poststructural assessment and measurement scholar, Ezekiel Roman Dixon! I can't wait to read his work and include it in my book. Met with the Routledge publisher and came up with a better title. Remember they didn't like the Enough is enough title? The new title is: Radical equality in education: Starting over in American schooling. I like it. It points nicely to Ranciere's concept of radical equality and still meets the publisher's need for appropriately searchable words in the title.
Our presidential session with Edward Soja as discussant went very well, even though there were not as many people there as I had expected given Soja's attendance. He did a great job calling all of us on our shallow use of critical geography. We are novices using this framework in education and hearing from "the man" himself was an excellent learning experience. For my paper, he said heterotopia is not a space, but rather a way of looking at space. I talked to him at length about this during coffee after the session, but am still not sure I agree (or maybe I just don't understand). Foucault seems to talk about heterotopias as places (cemetery, museums, mirrors) and so I'd think that heterotopias are these places and since place is subsumed in space, they are spaces. What do you think?
Our presidential session with Edward Soja as discussant went very well, even though there were not as many people there as I had expected given Soja's attendance. He did a great job calling all of us on our shallow use of critical geography. We are novices using this framework in education and hearing from "the man" himself was an excellent learning experience. For my paper, he said heterotopia is not a space, but rather a way of looking at space. I talked to him at length about this during coffee after the session, but am still not sure I agree (or maybe I just don't understand). Foucault seems to talk about heterotopias as places (cemetery, museums, mirrors) and so I'd think that heterotopias are these places and since place is subsumed in space, they are spaces. What do you think?