Papers by Gabriel Huddleston
The Journal of Social Studies Research
Familiar stranger: A life between two islands, S. Hall, B. Schwarz. Duke University Press, Durham... more Familiar stranger: A life between two islands, S. Hall, B. Schwarz. Duke University Press, Durham, NC (2017). Price: $25.95.
The Currere Exchange
Huddleston, G. (2018). Urban schools as frontiers and awkward research stances: The inner-city st... more Huddleston, G. (2018). Urban schools as frontiers and awkward research stances: The inner-city student exchange program. Currere Exchange Journal, 2(2), 75-85.
While the history of cultural studies cites origins in adult education and contemporary scholars ... more While the history of cultural studies cites origins in adult education and contemporary scholars continue to note the need for cultural studies work in schools the connections between cultural studies and educational theorizing seem strained. This paper suggests the recent film Waiting for Superman offers an opportunity for a cultural studies analysis with clear import on education and curriculum theorizing. In specific, this paper notes the important conjuncture of forces at work in the public discourse of so-called education reform in the contemporary US context and suggests that cultural studies analysis may be needed now more than ever. This offering provides linkages between the discursive construction of educative reform efforts, the material lived experiences of those who spend time in educative contexts, and the concomitant ethics that such constructions require. As free-market fundamentalism, neoconservative ideological formations, and representations of school and schooling are all in play, this perspective-both in the material and academic sense-intends to help reinvigorate the conversation between cultural studies and curriculum theorizing and provides new understandings of this "nightmare of the present".
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education
Popular culture can be used as an apparatus of diffraction, in order to understand the complicate... more Popular culture can be used as an apparatus of diffraction, in order to understand the complicated entanglements within both the object and in connection to other elements of society. This article posits that the television drama Mad Men is an ideal apparatus of diffraction of the role of teacher, making that assertion collaboratively between the co-authors, demonstrating how popular culture continues to diffract, even when it is "held" from different angles. This article initially reads disjointed as the authors' work is intercut strategically but not necessarily coherently. By using popular culture as an apparatus of diffraction, the authors become implicitly implicated in a larger entanglement; in this case, between the authors, Mad Men, and education. With your reading, the entangled web is extended, and the authors hope further understanding can be gleamed.
International Journal of Developmental Disabilities , 2019
In the United States, educational inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities is relativ... more In the United States, educational inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities is relatively new. It was not until 1975 that the right to a "free appropriate public education" for children with disabilities was recognized, and not until 1990 that adults with disabilities were granted equal employment opportunities. Arguably, systems still exist that exclude and oppress individuals with significant intellectual disabilities. This study is about the life of one person with an intellectual disability who was born before federal laws existed in the United States and who was not granted a "free and appropriate public education" in her home community, leading to a life experience quite atypical than the lives experienced by many adults with disabilities residing in the United States. Two primary findings are shared. First, the lives of people with intellectual disabilities can be meaningful and filled with dignity, yet society's lack of support, norms for behavior, and low expectations around disability act as a perpetual barrier. Second, "inclusion" represents much more than the sharing of a physical space.
Educational Research for Social Change
The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2018
This paper posits a move "toward the concrete" as a specific combination of curriculum studies an... more This paper posits a move "toward the concrete" as a specific combination of curriculum studies and Cultural Studies, placing it squarely within the frames of postqualitative research . In addition to examining the theoretical legacies of the aforementioned fields, this paper focuses on four areas, posited by Helfenbein , in which Cultural Studies can inform postqualitative educational research: materialism, (anti)antiessentialism, social constructivism, and radical contextuality. In doing so, this paper contends that for researchers, a sound theoretical base is needed if one is to engage in postqualitative research and offers toward the concrete as one such possibility.
This article posits double binds, as discussed by Gayatri Spivak (2012) in “The Double Bind Start... more This article posits double binds, as discussed by Gayatri Spivak (2012) in “The Double Bind Starts to Kick In”, as productive spaces only when scholars are willing to remain awkwardly within them as opposed to exiting quickly. Before developing such an awkward stance within double binds, the article examines Spivak’s discussion of passing through them vis-à-vis Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, Orange is the New Black and Richard Ford’s “The Sportswriter”. It then considers the ramifications of adopting an awkward stance as one occupies and passes through a double bind in relation to critical work within curriculum studies, qualitative research, and multicultural education. To allow one’s stance to become awkward means to reject the dichotomies of epistemology/ontology, abstract/material, and self/Other and strive towards what Spivak posits as an aesthetic education.
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education
Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education
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Papers by Gabriel Huddleston
Edited Journal Issues by Gabriel Huddleston