{"data":{"ID":294,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1380489602,"CreatorID":442,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Privileged Voices in Education","Handle":"The_Privileged_Voices_in_Education","ShortDescription":"Whose voices are heard in education (education reform, education technology) circles? While it might be easy to identify (and lambast) the \"corporate\" voices, are we truly offering and supporting diverse voices in response? Who gets to speak \"for\" students, for teachers, for change? How can we do better?","Description":"The people that are often praised as education leaders, no matter where they might sit on the \" politics of education reform\" spectrum  -- the right or the left, from the public or private sector, \"insiders\" or \"outsiders\" -- often share a lot in common: namely, their privilege. Their class privilege. Their gender privilege. Their racial privilege. Their age privilege. Their health privilege. Their credential privilege. \r\n\r\nWe need to stop and ask: whose voices are we hearing? Whose voices are we ignoring? Whose voices are we amplifying? Whose voices are we squelching?\r\n\r\nEducation writers Audrey Watters and Jose Vilson will talk about the \"Top 10\" lists that get crafted, the awards and the recognition that get given, and how we can address questions of diversity (or the lack of diversity) therein. They'll chat race, class, gender and the future of education (which is almost the title of Vilson's new book!), how privilege plays out in the politics of education, and how it plays out in those we send into the public sphere to articulate our political (and pedagogical) positions.","Link":["http:\/\/hackeducation.com","http:\/\/thejosevilson.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We could start with a question that seems to be popular among ed(tech) bloggers: who are the most prominent voices in education? Let's reflect on who these are? Who's missing? This session will begin as a conversation between Vilson and Watters, but the goal is to open some of our provocations up to the larger audience.","Presenter":["Audrey Watters","Jose Vilson"],"PresenterAffiliation":[],"PresenterEmail":["audrey.watters@gmail.com","jose.l.vilson@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":10,"SubmitterID":442,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}