Cory Brautigam
PhD Student
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Cory Brautigam
PhD Student
College of Education | Department of Curriculum and Instruction
The Pennsylvania State University
I am a PhD student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education at The Pennsylvania State University. The questions I ask draw on my eight years of experience teaching secondary English in Philadelphia, PA, and situate me in the Language, Culture and Society emphasis area within my department. My research looks at how teachers think about their role in society and how this is reflected in their classroom practices. I am specifically interested in educators' imaginaries, the temporalities of schooling, and how these interact with policy and political contexts in which educators teach. My dissertation research explores this in the context of the state takeover of the Houston Independent School District.
Other areas of interest include:
Other areas of interest include:
- The construction of traditional school outcome measures that are utilized for policy-making and funding decisions -- what these measures miss and what they produce
- How progressive discourse (e.g. DEIB) in education gets metabolized by mechanisms of racial capitalism
- The uses and limits of understanding schools as sites of social and cultural reproduction
- Charting white teachers' journeys towards critical race consciousness
- Teachers' experience of rupture and emerging speculative pedagogies and practices
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Cory Brautigam
PhD Student
College of Education | Department of Curriculum and Instruction
The Pennsylvania State University
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The sun can be disarming
even as a dream.
~ lines from a poem by my 5th grade student
even as a dream.
~ lines from a poem by my 5th grade student