Rouge Forum in Ohio, June 22-24: Occupy Education!

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ROUGE FORUM://OccupyEducation!Class Conscious Pedagogies and Social Change
Miami University, Oxford, OH, June 22-­24, 2012

Friday, June 22
8:00am—8:30am Registration and Coffee

MCG 322:Assembly Room

8:30am—9:00amWelcome
Dr. Dennis Carlson, Professor, Department Educational Leadership, Miami University
Dr. Michael Dantley, Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs,
In-coming Chair, Department of Educational Leadership, Miami University

9:00am—10:30am

Keynote Address: Susan Ohanian
Introduction of Susan Ohanian
Rich Gibson, Emeritus Professor, San Diego State University

Questions/Discussion

10:30am—11:30am
Plenary: OccupyEducation!ClassConsciousPedagogiesandSocialChange
Facilitators: Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia
Rich Gibson, Emeritus Professor, San Diego State University

11:30am—1:00pmLUNCH

1:10pm—2:40pm
Session F1 F1ARm 416
Paper Presentations:

/Social Justice and Radical Education/
Doug Selwyn, Plattsburgh State University
“Radicalizing Education Conversation”
C. Gregg Jorgensen, Western Illinois University
Reflective Thinking as the Foundation for a Social Justice Education Model
Greg Queen, Public School Teacher
Teaching Radical History in Capitalist Context
Joe Wegwert, Northern Arizona University
Living and Teaching in the State of Irrationality We Call Arizona
F1BRm 418

Panel:Equity, Social Justice, and Math and Science Education
Carl Wilms, Miami University
Scott Sander, Miami University
Todd Edwards, Miami University
F1CRm 419

Panel: From Occupying the Department of Education to Occupying the Conversation on Education Reform: A Social Primer
Shaun Johnson, Towson University
Tim Slekar, Penn State
Tom Poetter, Miami University
F1DRm 317

Alternative Format: Fracking in Ohio: Efforts to resist
Lessons, stories, and discussion about grass roots efforts and struggles to educte our communities to stop fracking
Joe Cronin, Antioch University, Yellow Springs
Mary Clare Rietz, Ohio Alliance for People and Environment, Cincinnati
Peg Koebernick, Gas and Oil Drilling Awareness and Education, Yellow Springs

2:50pm—4:20pm
Session F2 F2ARm 317
Paper Presentations: Technology,SocialMedia, and Democratic Education
Vance S. Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Empowering the disenfranchised with technology
Libbi Miller, Northern Arizona University
Dialogue to Disenfranchise: A Case Study Uncovering Hierarchical Relationships in the Secondary Computer-Assisted Credit Recovery Classroom
Thomas Patrick Huston, Indiana University
Constructivist Theories of Learning, New Media, and Reform in Public Education
Sue Bartow, Miami University
Social Media Pedagogies — Democratic or Mechanized? Teachers Exploring Social Media in their Teaching
F2BRm 416

Paper Presentations: Contexts of Teaching and Learning
Tiffany Farias—Sokoloski, University of Texas at San Antonio
Teacher Identity: The influence of Students’ Home Life on the Reconstruction of Teachers’ Identity
Suzanne Griffin, Northern Arizona University
Bound by Contradiction: Social Patterns and Conflicting Communities in Middle School Cafeteria
Sheri Leafgren, Miami University and Francis Broadway, University of Akron
Unmasking: On violence, Masculinity and Superheroes in (Science) Education

F2CRm 418

Panel: The Enterprise University Plan: An Attack on Public Education
Richard Quantz, Miami University (Chair)
Kelly Church, Miami University
Rachel Radina, Miami University
Kelly Waldrop, Miami University
F2DRm 419

Alternative Format:The Students for a Democratic Society and the Sixties: Getting Ready for Revolution
Rich Gibson & Alan Spector
4:30pm—7:30pmDinnerDowntown Oxford

7:45pm—8:30pm
Plenary: Drawing wisdom and power from this day

MCG 322:Assembly Room
8:30pm—9:30pmSpecial Performance
MCG 322:Assembly Room
Rouge Forum Exclusive: Special staged preview performance: /Know//the//Teacher//Left//Behind/
By William R. Boyer Detroit area educator, playwright and performer.
This timely new monologue reveals the profound struggles surrounding an aging, urban radical—teacher and his inevitable collision with humorously tragic institutional mismanagement so prevalent in our No Child Left Behind era of errors. Mr. Boyer’s true—life portrayals of working at a “failing school,”dramatically recreate unusual lives—and losses—unavoidable in such an alternatingly comical and somber environment. White tracing the history of the history—making the divide between the (almost all-white white) suburbs and the largely abandoned (mostly black) city of Detroit, Mr. Boyer’s Know the Teacher Left Behind suggests real solutions for all dead-end tyranny of state-sponsored factory schooling.

Saturday, June 23

8:15am—8:45amRegistration and Coffee

MCG 322:Assembly Room
8:45am—10:15am

Session S—1 S1ARm MCG 416
Paper Presentations: Challenging Capitalist and Militarist Structure in Education
Curry Malott, West Chester University
Rethinking Educational Purpose: The Socialist Challenge
Jean Ann Foley, Northern Arizona University
NCATE: The spirit of Militarism and the Disintegration of Democratic Educaiton
Barbara Rose, Miami University
The Big “O”: Occupying Against Reductionism in Education: Using Small and Sustained Action
Jan Nespor, Ohio State University
Coins of the Academic Realm: Hidden infrastructures of Capitalist Relations and the Price of Learning

S1BRm MCG 317

Paper Presentations: Critique, Occupation, and Re-­formation in Reclaiming Democracy
Dan Reyes, Nonstop Institute of Yellow Springs OH
Between Occupation And Re-Formation: Instituting Democratic Community And The University
Jason Keyser, West Chester University
Bipartisan majoritarian rule and the threat to individual human rights
Hallie DeCatherine Jones, Indiana University
Cultural Pedagogies of Critique: How Corporeal Vulnerability is used as a Symbolic and Tactical Function within the #occupy Movement

S1CRm MCG 418

Panel: Transforming Occupation: /Challenging Neoliberalism and Militarism in Education Through//Community Praxis/

Shannon K. McManimon , University of Minnesota
Erin L. Dyke, University of Minnesota
Brian D. Lozenski, University of Minnesota
Zachary A. Casey, University of Minnesota

S1D Rm MCG 419

Alternative Format: /People’s Platform for Equality and Justice/
Tom Dutton, Miami University
Fariba Nourian, Occupy the Hood and Occupy Cincinnati
Vanessa Sparks, Mohawk Area Development Corporation (MADCo)
Josh Spring, Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless
Chris Wilkey, Northern Kentucky University

10:20am—10:50am

Plenary MCG 322 Assembly Room

11:00am—12:30pm

Session S—2 S2ARm MCG 416

Panel: ReclaimingthePromiseofDemocraticEducation
Dennis Carlson, Miami University (Chair)

Picking Up the Pieces: Reclaiming the Promise of Democratic Education in an Age of Catastrophe
Jamal Abu-Attiyeh, Miami University

The Occupation of Arab and Muslim Identity
Precious Gawanani, Miami University

Occupy Freedom: A nine Month Battle of Academic Freedom by University of Malawi Faculty and Students
Ali Hachem, Miami University
From Occupation to Occupying: How to Reclaim the Uncertain in an Age of Certainty

S2BRm MCG 317

Panel: OccupyingCapitalism:TheLessonsofPauloFreire,andSalCastro
Crystal Swenson, West Chester University

The relevance of Sal Castro in the times of ‘Occupy’: What have we learned? What have we yet to learn?
Dana Morrison Simone, West Chester University

Occupy or Be Occupied: What Paulo Freire Can Tell Us About Occupy Wall Street

John M. Elmore, West Chester University
Magical consciousness and the dogmatic mind

S2CRm MCG 418

Panel: Dangerous Counterstories: Narrating for understanding, solidarity, resistance, and community in the age of Neoliberalism
Emily A. Daniels, SUNY Plattsburgh
Brad Porfilio, Lewis University
Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia
S2DRm MCG 419

Alternative Format: Occupy the Hood & Occupy Cincinnati
Rachel Radina, Miami University (Chair)
Ben Stockwell. Occupy Cincinnati
Vanessa Sparks, Occupty the Hood
Rigel Behrens, Occupy the Hood & Occupy Cincinnati
Justin Jeffre, Occupy Cincinnati

12:30pm—2:00pmLUNCH

2:00pm—3:45pmMCG 322:Assembly Room
Keynote Addresses: Paul Street and Mike Prysner
Introductions: Joe Wegwert and Bryan Reinholdt
Questions/Discussion:

3:45pm—5:00pmPlenary: Resistance Within the Ranks of the US Military
MCG 322:Assembly Room
Facilitators: Bryan Reinholdt and Mike Prysner

5:15pm—6:30pmSpecial PerformanceMCG 322: Assembly Room

Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill, and Bruce Springsteen: a visionary soundtrack for the
OCCUPY movements
Doug Morris, Eastern New Mexico University

6:30pm—7:15pm
Plenary: /Review and Renew: Where do we go from here?/
MCG 322:Assembly Room
Facilitator: Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia

7:00pm—(Whenever)
Dinner & (Whatever)