ERIC Number: EJ1388628
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 21
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Carnival and the Fake School: Transgressing the Vertical Imaginary of Education with and for Young Children
Dyke, Erin
Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, v59 n2 p124-144 2023
This study examines the collective labor of imagining one educational world among myself and six middle-income, racially- and gender-diverse six- and seven year-olds via a two-year critical participatory ethnography of a six-family (including my own) pandemic cooperative--Fake School, as the kids playfully named it. Fake School was initially a semester-long temporary stopgap to arrange shared childcare amid remote learning that became a two-year collective project through the uncertainties and surges of the pandemic. Drawing on Stallybrass and White, I use carnival as an analytic to explore the verticalist imaginary of the education-based mode of study. I seek to narrate our Fake School situated within the broader context of the predominating notions of normalcy that delimit possible futures for public education. I suggest that the emergent educational world we briefly created offers important insights for authorizing young children's perspectives on the future of education.
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Young Children, Imagination, Educational Environment, Distance Education, Public Education, Student Attitudes, Achievement Gains, School Safety, School Closing, Educational Change, Creativity, Educational Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Language: English
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