Talk: Julissa Muniz presents "Learning from Within: A Critical Ethnography of the Logics, Leaders, and Learners in a Juvenile Detention Center"
Drawing on data from a three-year critical ethnography of a juvenile detention center in the Midwest, Dr. Muñiz will discuss and complicate how we understand and study the relationship between schools andcarceral settings. Using institutional theory and critical race theory, Dr. Muñiz will explore howorganizational actors within a juvenile detention center, including school leaders, teachers, administratorsand security staff, make-sense of and approach developing programs for incarcerated youth. In doing so,she will highlight how racialized carceral logics, via logics of safety and security, are sustained andreproduced despite some social actors’ efforts to advocate for organizational shifts in philosophy, approach, and practice. Throughout the presentation, Dr. Muñiz will also discuss how incarcerated youthexperienced and made sense of what it meant to live and learn in the carceral context. This project invites both researchers and practitioners to grapple with what it means to center people’s liberation while also attending to the here and now of youth confinement and the schooling conditions youth experience while incarcerated.
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