Pedagogies of With-ness

Across the globe, students are speaking up, walking out, and marching for social and ecological justice. Despite deficit discourses about students, youth are using their voice and agency to call forth a better world. Will educators respond to this call to stand with students in relational solidarity as co-constructors of a new tomorrow? What is possible when teachers and students engage together in new ways? Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency offers insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance. It asserts that students are both capable and competent. Taking a narrative approach, this book honors academic work that is rooted in educational practice. Expanding beyond traditional conceptions of student voice, chapters engage in meditations on three themes: identity, pedagogy, and partnership. This book is an exploration of with-ness, a way of knowing, being, and acting. By centralizing the all-too-often suppressed wisdom of youth, teachers and researchers engage in new forms of critique and possibility-making with students. Editors reflect on this central theme, exploring the dimensions of such pedagogies of with-ness. Through this book, teachers are invited to imagine pedagogy under this new framework, actively committed to students, their voice, and mutual engagement.


Perfect for courses such as:

Social Foundations | Student-Teacher Partnerships | Secondary Methods | Service Learning Leadership Ethnic Studies | Democracy and Civics | Social Justice and Education | Student Voice in Classrooms/Education | Ethical Issues in Education | Leadership for Social Justice


Acknowledgements

Foreword

Kevin Kumashiro


Preface


Student Voice and Agency: Introducing Three Galleries of Work

Linda Hogg (with) Kevin Stockbridge (with) Charlotte Achieng-Evensen (with) Suzanne SooHoo



Who Is Listening to Students?

Christopher Lewis


PART I: The Identity and Voice Gallery


The Identity and Voice Gallery 

Charlotte Achieng-Evensen


“The Unnecessary Gendering of Everything”: Gender Diverse Adults Speak Back to Their K-12 Schools

Katherine Lewis


Truancy: Young People Walk Away from Negative School Factors

Delia Baskerville


Rooted and Rising: The Self-Liberation of African-American Female Students

Michelle Flowers-Taylor


Voices of Scholars: Academically Successful Black Males and Their Stories of Culturally Relevant Pedagogies

Quaylan Allen



Empowering Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Gabrielle Popp


Into the Future by, With and for Indigenous Youth: Rangatahi Māori Leading Youth Conversations

Huia Tomlins-Jahnke, Joanna Kidman, and Adreanne Ormond


PART II: The Pedagogy Gallery


The Pedagogy Gallery

Linda Hogg


Making Music Grow: Student Perspectives on Culturally Responsive Music Education

Tracy Rohan


“People Don’t Understand”: Children Learning Through Drama as a Way to Develop Student Voice

Delia Baskerville and Dayle Anderson


Student Voices in the Digital Hubbub

Chris Proctor and Antero Garcia


“Multiple Perspectives and Many Connections”: Systems Thinking and Student Voice

Amy Lassiter Ardell and Margaret Sauceda Curwen


Finding Hope Through Dystopian Novels 

Christopher Lewis


PART III: The Youth-Adult Partnerships Gallery


The Youth-Adult Partnerships Gallery

Kevin Stockbridge


We’re the Bosses: Youth Action Council Designs an Equitable Makerspace

Day Greenberg, Micaela Balzar, Angela Calabrese Barton, Edna Tan, and YAC Youth



Repurposing the Master’s Tools: Leveraging Business Education to Build a Better World 

Linda Hogg and Anne Yates


Applying Gentleness Against the Force: The Dojo as a Site of Liberation for Autistic People

Erin McCloskey


“It Was Time for Us to Take a Stand”: An Ethnic Studies Classroom and the Power of Student Voice

Jorge F. Rodriguez, Carah Reed, and Karen Garcia


Collaborative Leadership: A Story of Student-Principal School Transformation

Susanne Jungersen


Angeles Workshop School: An Experiment in Student Voice

Ndindi Kitonga


Part IV: Pedagogies of With-ness 


Pedagogies of With-ness: Reflecting on and Beyond the Exhibition

Linda Hogg (with) Charlotte Achieng-Evensen (with) Kevin Stockbridge (with) Suzanne SooHoo



Contributors


Index