Julia Gates Brooks
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5704 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7163
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jgb7@pitt.eduTeaching Fellow - Part Time Instructor
I am interested in social and ecological justice in education, emotional discourses, ecofeminist ethics and epistemology, and the dialogic classroom. My academic background includes the Philosophy of Education, Sociology of Education and the Foundations of Education. My focus in these areas centers around locating and broadening the landscape of a justice-oriented and transformative pedagogy that attends to emotion, dialogue and place-consciousness in the foundations of education. Specifically, I am interested in uncovering, examining and expanding how educators currrently understand and utilize the language of emotion, dialogue and place with teacher education students. Methodologically I am exploring post-structuralist, ecocritical and autobiographical approaches to education.
In addition to my current academic interests I have a background in teaching undergraduate Sociology, Social Psychology and Ecopsychology courses, as well as working in the fields of Experiential and Adventure Education and Clinical Social Work.
Currently I am teaching the undergraduate Social Foundations of Education class. In the Summer of 2007 I taught the graduate course, Education and Society. And, in the Summer of 2008 I will teach Education and Culture.
School Affiliations
- Department: Administrative and Policy Studies
Recent Publications
- Brooks, J. G. (2007). “Celebrating the other”: Power and resistance as prelude to Benhabib's deliberative democracy. Philosophical Studies in Education, 38.
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Recent Course Instruction
Summer 2008 (2087)
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Recent Presentations
- Brooks, J.G. & Brown, L. (2008). Alone in the Democratic Wilderness. Paper to be presented at the international conference organized by the Transformative Learning Centre. Toronto, ON, October 16-18, 2008.
- Brooks, J. G. (2008). Question authority? Discomfort as a necessary condition for transformative learning. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Equity and Social Justice in Education Conference. Stockton, NJ, April 26, 2008.
- Brooks, J.G. & Greenwood, H. (2008). Seeing Red: Considering Williams’ Passion and Patience as gateways to an ecofeminist pedagogy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Women’s Studies Consortium. Green Bay, WI, April 4-5, 2008.
- Brooks, J. G. (2008). The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy of social foundations of education. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Council of Graduate Students in Education Research Conference. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. March 6, 2008.
- Brooks, J.G., Hyde, A.M., Motohashi, E.P. & Bracco, R. (2007). Dilemmas of discomfort: Risk and resistance in education. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association. Cleveland, Ohio, October 24-28, 2007.
- Brown, A., Brooks, J.G. & Gunzenhauser, M.G. (2007). Re-envisioning relationships with the other: Philosophical approaches to educational reform and racial justice. Panel presented at the annual meeting of the OVPES. Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 27-29, 2007.
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