Learning Against the Grain

Next week, I'll be presenting at UPenn's 30th annual Ethnography in Education Forum. It'll be my third year participating in the forum, and each year has been a lot of fun.

This year, I'll be speaking about some political dimensions of a participatory-action-research project that I collaborated on in a friend's ESL classroom.

I'll post the paper associated with this talk in the link below:
Learning against the grain: Supporting students ‘critical ethical voices’ in and out of the classroom

a new blog

i obviously haven't been using this blog frequently...

as of recent, i've been writing on a new space, Sociogeny of Sport, to begin documenting my readings, questions, problems, curiosities, and whatever else comes up along the way to writing my dissertation. right now i'm focused on the sociological study of sports across diverse communities. until things solidify a bit, this won't be a public forum-but invite only. so let me know if you'd like to know more... alexgurn@gmail.com

in the meantime, i'm planning to start posting to this blog at least bi-weekly