Compositions Elsewhere, Vol. III: Equity, Research, and the Poetics of Education

4 Parts (each essay has additional sections as well as illustrations/exhibitions) | ~48,000 words | 191 pages | 5.5" x 8.5" | Open Access (and/or $20 suggested contribution)

This is a trilogy of compositions critically interrogating equity, research, and knowledge within education spaces. The poetics in education involves the lived experiences of people. Its focus is to recognize the intricacies of humanity present within each person as well as to facilitate a stimulating learning environment to bring out that uniqueness. This uniqueness of a shared humanity resonates as the past liberation struggles continue to inform the resistance. Thus, the poetics of education is a critical pursuit to recognize the relationships and resonances among the lived experiences, which illuminate the possibilities of education as the instrument of liberation.

The poetics of education observes the limitation of disciplines and the reproduction of dominate ways of thinking through academic criteria to express the intricacies of lived experiences. Questions arise on how art provides a critical gaze to observe what was taught not to see through making the familiar, strange and strange, familiar to reimagine education as the instrument of liberation. Lived experiences are shared and the exhibits are curated to continue the conversation. The solution is not singular for mixing is a plural process.


TRACKLIST (Outline)

ACKNOWLEDGE

EQUITY.
Understanding education through liberatory pedagogy
I. Introduction: "Only In Theaters"
II. Colonial Masks: Education and Equity
III. Private and Public Good: An Economic Good
IV. (Con)fusion in Conceptualizing Education
V. Last Question: What is Education?
VI. Lift Every Voice: The Instrument of Education
Acknowledge
Endnotes
References

RESEARCH.
Counter-Narratives Reflecting on Reseach Epistemologies
Queue
Reflection of the Other: A Fable
Thinking of Essay 2: A Counter-Narrative
Preliminary Question: What is Research?
Quantitative and Qualitative: A Research Binary
Decolonizing Research Methods in a WhatsApp Message
Re-search and Epistemic Disobedience
Grade Matrix and Knowledge Production
Decolonizing Research Methodologies 101
Dribbling a Basketball: Who decides West in a sphere?
Cambridge Ethics and the Fast Snail
When research goes too far…
The Research Ethical Pillars: Alternative Route
Delinking the Research Web
Appendix is Bursting
References

POETICS OF EDUCATION
Education as an Instrument of Liberation
Education as Distraction and Domination
The First Key: Refusal
Call and Response
Listening to Song: Social World of The Text
18 March: Update from the Vice-Chancellor
Further Consideration: Who is the bull, fighting?
The Arena as the Commons: Melody of the Undercommons Elaborated
"Orders of Operation:" A Lesson on PEMDAS
Exhibit F — What do you see? What are you defending
Exhibit T — "Research" Ballistics
Exhibit W — "Celestial" Cannon
Exhibit B — Cracked Coat of Arms
Exhibit A — A Game's Motto
Closing: A Declaration on the Point of Departure
References

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