Papers by Samantha Scribner
Routledge eBooks, Jun 1, 2023
Routledge eBooks, Aug 18, 2022
Ethos: /eethoss / • noun the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community. — ORIGIN Gree... more Ethos: /eethoss / • noun the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community. — ORIGIN Greek ethos ‘nature, disposition.’ N THE INTRODUCTION to Intellectual advancement through disciplinarity, Bill Pinar (2007) suggests that a conversation on the disciplinarity of curriculum work, “the intellectu-al labor of understanding—the labor of comprehension, critique, and reconceptualization ” (p. xii), be taken up. Arguing for both verticality (an intentional, intellectual history of curriculum work) and horizontality (analysis of the contemporary context within which curriculum takes
Journal of Education Human Resources
This article focuses on the processes undertaken by Latina mothers to advocate for themselves and... more This article focuses on the processes undertaken by Latina mothers to advocate for themselves and their children at the intersections of racial, cultural, gender, anti-immigrant, and sociolinguistic marginalization. In an effort to center the intersectional dimensions of these mujeres y madres (women and mothers) and their organizing efforts, we employed a muxerista framework. Our analysis of data collected from a two-and-a-half-year-long critical ethnography revealed three distinct yet interconnected outcomes of muxerista organizing. First, by applying a muxerista pedagogy, the Latina mothers established a sacred space via (among other things) weekly meetings. Second, through the establishment of a sacred space grounded in love and kinship, these mujeres y madres cultivated their own muxerista consciousness. Finally, together, the sacred space coupled with a muxerista consciousness created an opportunity for them to (re)imagine their own muxerista liderazgo (leadership) identity. T...
Journal of Research on Leadership Education
This article expands a more inclusive parental engagement framework by broadening notions of educ... more This article expands a more inclusive parental engagement framework by broadening notions of educational leadership using an example of organizing actions of Latina parent leaders amid a hostile anti-immigrant climate within an urban elementary school. Researchers draw on Yosso’s community cultural wealth framework to analyze how a Latinx parent group and parent leaders activated and nurtured community cultural wealth. The findings describe the ways in which the Latinx parent group fostered community cultural wealth and, in doing so, cultivated parental educational leadership. The authors discuss how the Latinx parent leaders then negotiated tensions that emerged between the Latinx parent group and school officials when a new parent organization was established at the school. We use this study to both disrupt traditional notions of educational leadership and discuss the implications it has for principal preparation programs.
Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership
During a student teaching experience, teacher education candidates affiliated with an urban Schoo... more During a student teaching experience, teacher education candidates affiliated with an urban School of Education school–university partnership witnessed a disturbing interaction between an early career White male teacher and a first-grade Black male student at an assigned elementary school. The subsequent interactions among the teacher, principal, district administrators, and university partners illumine the racial implications at varying levels from the individual to the structural level. The ways in which race is centered, yet is evaded by school actors, raises important considerations for leadership. Authors suggest combining critical race theory with organizational narratives to explore the dilemmas at various structural levels, but in particular for the principal and district-level administrators.
Educational Policy
This article presents results from community-engaged research conducted with Latinx immigrant par... more This article presents results from community-engaged research conducted with Latinx immigrant parents advocating for their students and themselves in and around an urban school engaged in multiple reforms, in a context affected by anti-immigrant policies and sentiments. The authors analyzed the intersection of organizing narratives related to formal school programs and activities of the parent group, examining the intersections, dissonances, and their micropolitical implications for authentic parental engagement. Results present elements of three distinct organizing narratives, as well as composite dialogues to demonstrate distinct narratives and the mechanisms by which parent interests are (re)positioned and/or evaded. This analysis reveals the ways in which the intersections of reform practices and local anti-immigration measures, which are disarticulated by school administrators, produce, at worst, mechanisms to marginalize immigrant parents and, at best, missed opportunities to ...
Education, Equity, Economy, 2016
In this chapter, we move toward a framework for Critical Policy Analysis (CPA) grounded in lingui... more In this chapter, we move toward a framework for Critical Policy Analysis (CPA) grounded in linguistic foundations constructing and maintaining institutional logics. The framework is built on the Institutional Logics Perspective (Thornton et al, The institutional logics perspective: a new approach to culture, structure, and process. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012), and Searle’s (Making the social world: the structure of human civilization. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995; The construction of social reality. Free Press, New York, 2009) linguistic theory of social institutions. The chapter first provides a general overview of the framework, and then further illustrates it in a discussion of three cases in which actors exert their agency by resisting marginalizing professional logics of school administration. We hope to show ways in which the linguistic foundations of institutional logics play a role in policy enactments and the micropolitical struggles between school administrators and members of school communities.
Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Nov 28, 2011
Critical Education, Sep 15, 2013
Alex Molnar has taken up the question of commercialization in education over an extensive career ... more Alex Molnar has taken up the question of commercialization in education over an extensive career that most recently has been in concert with the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), an organization dedicated to the scholarly response to this very education reform movement. In the Spring of 2012, a dialogue was engaged to explore issues of the moment for scholars of education and how we might respond.
Handbook of Urban Education, 2013
Teaching and Teacher Education, 2006
In this case study, we use a consensus model as a framework for examining the professional develo... more In this case study, we use a consensus model as a framework for examining the professional development component of a standards-based reform effort initiated by a school district in the United States. We describe the district's actions, analyze the extent of adherence to the model, and identify reasons for what occurred. Although administrators intended to adopt key design principles of
Journal of Educational Administration, 2002
This article brings together the issues of leadership and organization. We begin by discussing th... more This article brings together the issues of leadership and organization. We begin by discussing the concept of leadership, emphasizing the importance of the context in which leadership occurs. Because the type of leadership addressed in this paper occurs in the context of formal organizations, we revisit the concept of “loose‐coupling”, which reveals the rational and institutional dimensions of organization, explaining how each dimension provides a different form of determinacy on and through which leadership can act. We end by drawing on a study in which we are currently engaged to examine the forms that leadership may take in the rational and institutional dimensions of organizations.
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Papers by Samantha Scribner