Leadership of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Teachers’ Work/Teacher Unions SIG is seeking submissions for a special issue of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. The special issue theme “Teachers’ Work in Contentious Political Times” seeks manuscripts focusing on teachers’ work in P-16 education, teacher unions, or community organizing. In this special issue, we seek empirical and theoretical papers, interviews (with current or retired practitioners, teachers who have left the profession, those in teachers unions, and those in grassroots organizations dedicated to equitable public education) that take a critical approach to the current issues educators are facing.
Critical research seeks to disrupt and expose the status quo and elevate the voices of marginalized and oppressed people through the research process. We are interested in manuscripts that analyze and conceptualize teachers’ work in these current heightened political times. Below are a few suggested topics to include in this volume, but it is by no means exhaustive.
— Educator (birth to 25) response to anti-CRT and LGBTQ+ legislation
— Educator organizing through unions and caucuses to resist attacks
— Grassroots community organizing with educators, parents, students, and activists
— Critical policy and discourse analysis
— Anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and decolonial approaches to teaching and learning enacted as resistance
— Activist research projects
— Topics that historicize and contextualize contemporary policy movements and/or organized resistance
— Educator narratives of political and curricular censorship and/or resistance to censorship
— Critical policy network analyses that makes relations of power shaping educational reform efforts visible and tangible
— Youth participatory action research and/or narratives of student-led organizing
— Empirical studies or narratives that help us to understand how responses to attacks on public education are impacted by tensions or enactments of solidarity among traditionally certified teachers, alternative or emergency certified teachers, education support professionals (i.e., classroom aides, bus drivers), parents/caregivers, justice-oriented community-based groups, and/or students
Manuscripts due: September 30, 2024
Please see the full call for more details
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