Document Type
Article
Version
Postprint
Publication Title
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
Volume
28
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
Early 21st-century cautions regarding student voice work in educational research echo in striking ways some poststructuralist feminist critiques of critical pedagogies that proliferated in the early 1990s. Both warn against totalizing, undifferentiated notions of and responses to oppressed, marginalized, and/or disempowered individuals or groups while sharing a commitment to the encouragement of critical analyses of existing social conditions (within and beyond classrooms) and the advocacy of changing dominant arrangements of power and participation. In this article, I explore how conceptions of and cautions regarding two key foci of liberatory efforts—identity and voice—throw into relief the impositional potential of those efforts. I offer the conceptual framework provided by “translation” to support a rethinking of students’ and researchers’ identities, roles, and participation in educational research as one of many necessarily ongoing efforts to resist the impositional potential of student voice work.
Publisher's Statement
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published as Alison Cook-Sather, "Resisting the Impositional Potential of Student Voice Work: Lessons for Liberatory Educational Research from Poststructuralist Feminist Critiques of Critical Pedagogy," Discourse 28, no. 3 (2007), 389-403, © 2007 Taylor and Francis, available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01596300701458962.
Citation
Cook-Sather, Alison. "Resisting the Impositional Potential of Student Voice Work: Lessons for Liberatory Educational Research from Poststructuralist Feminist Critiques of Critical Pedagogy." Discourse 28, no. 3 (2007): 389-403.
DOI
10.1080/01596300701458962