{"id":1826,"date":"2020-04-19T23:45:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2020-04-19T23:49:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T06:49:13","slug":"paying-the-piper-its-time-for-your-rogueaera-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"Paying the Piper: It\u2019s Time for your #rogueAERA Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/49795827568\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49795827568_18a88a9b54_z.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the quick and dirty invitation: if you are adding a line to your CV about work accepted at this year\u2019s cancelled AERA (or other academic conference), consider making an accessible\u2014perhaps even multimodal\u2014representation of your work to disseminate to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Nicole Mirra and I offered an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invitation<\/a> for folks to share the scholarship that would have been presented at AERA (originally scheduled to be happening right now). We\u2019re encouraging something simple: share what your work is about on your preferred social networks and include the hashtag #rogueAERA (obviously, still adhering to the the privacy expectations of any pertinent IRBs).<\/p>\n<p>Nicole contributed to an ongoing Tik Tok meme:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Umm, this is how you do the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DontRushChallenge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DontRushChallenge<\/a>, right? What my research REJECTS and what it EMBRACES. Now THAT is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rogueAERA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rogueAERA<\/a> in action. What is your research about? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PIfJWdTi5d\">pic.twitter.com\/PIfJWdTi5d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicole Mirra (@Nicole_Mirra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nicole_Mirra\/status\/1251211508283039744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I remixed a pictured book to talk about some of our collaborative civic literacies research:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bkFFfQa3c_I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I also made a quick and messy zine:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/anterobot\/49796678387\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49796678387_cbe45cd638.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OcF6QGoA1ag\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, these are kind of silly. But I also think we need to affirm\u2014particularly right now\u2014how and why our research matters. I am reminded of a <a href=\"https:\/\/clalliance.org\/blog\/equitable-connected-learning-requires-diverse-research-perspectives\/\">post Nicole wrote a few years ago<\/a>. Essentially, academic journalist, Rick Hess, would regularly go through the AERA program and mock the jargon-filled titles of papers and sessions. It&#8217;s easy, initially, to smirk at the lengthy titles of some of these sessions &#8230; except that it is also clear that such titles are often most frequently leveraged by BIPOC scholars and particularly for critical purposes. Those jargon-heavy titles illustrate that complex language is needed to contest the simple truths of structural inequalities. We must be post-X or anti-Y or push against neo-Z instantiations of ___. As Nicole wrote in her <a href=\"https:\/\/clalliance.org\/blog\/equitable-connected-learning-requires-diverse-research-perspectives\/\">blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In my courses for pre-service and in-service teachers, I remind my students that theory and research are inextricably linked to practice \u2014 that all decisions made in public education, from how we organize our lessons and assess student learning to how we structure school financing and school choice, flow from theories we have about the purpose of public education, the abilities of our students, and the kind of society we want to create. Naming these theories produces productive debate about the future directions of public education and helps us clarify our practice and policy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I quickly stopped laughing at Dr. Hess\u2019 derisive ridicule of educational research in The National Review and turned downright angry at his subsequent lofty dismissal of the entire AERA community of 25,000 education researchers in an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/rick_hess_straight_up\/2016\/04\/what_frustrates_me_about_aera.html?_ga=1.246518660.1817531413.1458001005\">EdWeek blog post<\/a>. He does not simply mock academic jargon. He consistently singles out for abuse scholarly research that forefronts considerations of inequality, whether by race, class, or gender.<\/p>\n<p>While he considers a study exploring Common Core reading strategies to be \u201creassuringly scholarly,\u201d he lambasts a study exploring racial inequities in college admissions as \u201cpolitically correct navel-gazing.\u201d He then accuses the entire AERA membership of \u201cgroupthink,\u201d proposing that all of its researchers are \u201cfixated on questions of race, class, and privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, but not\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0of the researchers. Hess excuses the \u201ceconomists and evaluators\u201d and finds a few words to praise the two sessions in which he himself participated. It sounds to me like Hess has his own privileged assumptions about what\u00a0<em>real\u00a0<\/em>research is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so, particularly for those of us committed to scholarship that dismantles racist, capitalist, heteronormative, able-bodied, gender-normative (and so on) forms of education practice, policy, and research. Our work must <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1790\">go rogue<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>For most of us, we found our way into academic research because of commitments to justice, to knowledge, to the possibility of bettering the lives of teachers and students. If you are going to participate in the academic systems in which you profit professionally by adding lines to your CV, consider at least offering some broad insights from what your work illuminates for the world.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I recognize that\u2014alongside social, personal, financial, and other forms of anxiety, including the added stress for many of working from home in isolation or while also attending to the needs of children\u2014not everyone is in a place to meaningfully contribute to something like #rogueAERA. That is totally okay. However, if you\u2014like me\u2014have been itching for bursts of intellectual engagement but have also struggled to kludge together more than a paragraph of academic writing in the past month, maybe give this a shot.<\/p>\n<p>As a final note, I went down a real internet rabbit hole looking up the phrase \u201cpaying the piper.\u201d There are contested understandings of threat, choice, and value dependent on if you think the phrase\u2019s origin comes from a classic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin\">fable<\/a> or a related Browning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45818\/the-pied-piper-of-hamelin\">poem<\/a>. 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