Faculty of Education presents Dr. Harper Keenan-FR and SJ

Event Details:

The UNB Faculty of Education presents Dr. Harper Keenan Boxed In: Trans Life and the Struggle for Self-Determination at School.

Join us via Zoom! Please email: casey.burkholder@unb.ca for the link.

This is a free public event.

Boxed In: Trans Life and the Struggle for Self-Determination at School

Dr. Harper Keenan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, where he serves as the Robert Quartermain Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality in Education. Before arriving at UBC, Dr. Keenan was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he also earned his PhD in Curriculum and Teacher Education in 2019. Dr. Keenan completed his undergraduate studies at The New School in New York City, and earned a Master’s Degree from the Bank Street College of Education. He is a proud former New York City elementary school teacher.

Broadly, Dr. Keenan’s research analyzes how adults teach children to make sense of the social world. Much of his work investigates the management, or scripting, of children’s knowledge, and ways that educators and their students might work together to interrupt that process and imagine something different. Dr. Keenan is interested in those social issues that many adults find difficult to talk about with children – things like racism, gender, sexuality, and violence. He is perhaps best known for his 2017 article in the Harvard Educational Review, “Unscripting Curriculum: Toward a Critical Trans Pedagogy.”

Today, Dr. Keenan’s research projects center around two themes: 1.) the history and contemporary interaction of colonialism, racism, and gender in schools and 2.) the continued development of critical queer and trans pedagogies.

Contact: Casey Burkholder, Associate Professor – Education, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton casey.burkholder@unb.ca

Note: this talk was postponed from October 19.

Building: MDH via Zoom

Room Number: Zoom link