Reclaiming the Cultural Politics of Teaching and Learning: Skooled in Punk

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Despite often being associated with anti-establishment, irreverent, and a do-it-yourself (DIY) rejection of dominant culture, less considered may the collaborative, communal, and curative threads of punk thinking, being, and doing. From the outset, punk offered critiques and alternative ways of conceptualizing a world and ways of worlding that are not as harmful and constraining as those encountered by many in the dominant milieu of life. This Element is focused on how and why punk can productively contribute to efforts that are responding to the influences of dominant culture in education, such as the effects of standardization, heightened accountabilities, and ‘gap talk’. For this Element, punk can be thought of as social practices that generate cultural resources that can be utilized to critique the dominant culture. Hence, this Element aims to make the case that punk sensibilities offer educators opportunities to reclaim the cultural politics of teaching and learning. Cover Title page Copyright page Reclaiming the Cultural Politics of Teaching and Learning: Skooled in Punk Contents 1 The Learner in Schooling and Punk Lessons 1.1 ‘Take It or Leave It’ 1.2 Why Learner Identities Matter 1.3 Communities of Learners 1.4 A DIY Approach to Interrupt Standardizing Practices 1.5 You Learnt Three Chords? Then Form a Band! 2 A Kind of Punk Education 2.1 ‘White People Go to School, Where They Teach You How to Be Thick’ 2.2 ‘Gracious Submission’ in the Era of Educational Accountabilities 2.3 The Production, Expression, and Politics of Punk Culture 2.4 Coming Back to Punk 2.5 Getting Skooled in Punk 2.6 What about Punk Pedagogies? 3 Why Punk Matters for Skooling 3.1 ‘Animal Rights’ 3.2 ‘Really, A Punk Vegan Movie?’ 3.3 Punk Composting, (Post)coloniality and the Time to Make Kin Not Babies 3.4 Punk and Composting for Skooling 4 Working with Punk in the Classroom 4.1 ‘I’m Like All the Pop Stars on Commercial Radio’ 4.2 Not That Sort of Punk 4.3 ‘One Great Show Can Change the World’ 4.4 Punk Lessons from Asset-Based Approaches Like Hip Hop Pedagogies 4.5 Punk and Critical Consciousness: Learning to Act On and In the World 5 Punk, Hope, and the Restorative Potential of Skooling References Acknowledgements