Abstracts
Abstract
Drawing primarily from critical pedagogy, decoloniality, and relevant research on “home,” we offer critical perspectives on how these areas of inquiry work in dialectical ways to inform our researcher/scholarly positionalities. Largely situated within autoethnographic methods, we link this work to basketball, and as players of the game, we bring in notions of desire, politics, and emancipatory visions of play as we make connections to research from a critical orientation. We conclude with the idea of Torn Nets as a poetic metaphor for imaging through the opportunities to engage in critical research that engages the incomplete and contradictory visuals, games, and courts within academia.
Keywords:
- Critical Pedagogy,
- Decoloniality,
- Sports
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Biographical notes
Juan F. Carrillo is an Associate Professor at Arizona St. University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. As a cultural studies in education scholar, his research covers areas such as males of color and their educational/schooling trajectories, Latinx education and activism, and the socio-cultural, political, and pedagogical dimensions of play, with an emphasis on basketball.
Noah De Lissovoy is Professor of Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on critical and emancipatory approaches to pedagogy, curriculum, and cultural studies. He is particularly interested in problems posed for educators by globalization, the intersecting effects of race, class and capital in schools and society, developing the theoretical resources for social movements, and extending and rethinking the traditions of critical pedagogy and philosophy.
Dan Heiman is an Assistant Professor of Bilingual/Biliteracy Education at the University of Texas at El Paso, a former elementary bilingual teacher in the borderlands, and teacher educator at the University of Veracruz. He uses critical ethnographic methods to examine how key stakeholders in Dual Language Bilingual Education engage in praxis with/in and alongside their comunidades and bilingually prepares future bilingual teachers.