Julia Gates Brooks
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
5704 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
PHONE: 412-648-7163
EMAIL:
jgb7@pitt.eduPart Time Faculty - Graduate Student Assistant
Currently, in the dissertation phase of my doctoral career, I am interested in social and deep ecological justice in education, emotional discourses, and ecojustice ethics and epistemology. My academic background in Education includes a particular emphasis in the Sociology of Education, Culture and Nature, and the Foundations of Education. I have been focused in these areas on locating and broadening the landscape of a justice-oriented and transformative pedagogy that attends to emotion, dialogue and place-consciousness in the classroom. Specifically, I am interested in uncovering and illuminating how educators currrently understand and utilize the language of emotion, dialogue and place in teacher education programs.
Methodologically, I am exploring mytho-poetic, scholarly personal narrative and ecocritical stances in educational research.
In addition to my current academic pursuits, I have a background in teaching undergraduates in Social Foundations of Education, Sociology (including the Sociological Foundations, Sociology and the Environment, Social Inequality, and the Sociology of Deviance), Social Psychology and Ecopsychology courses. As well, I have taught two graduate-level courses at the University of Pittsburgh: Education and Culture (Summer, 2008) and Education and Society (Summer 2007). In addition, I have worked in the fields of Experiential and Adventure Education and Clinical Social Work.
School Affiliations
- Department: Administrative and Policy Studies
Recent Publications
- Brooks, J. G. (2009, submitted). Bearing the weight: Discomfort as a necessary condition for “less
violent” dialogic learning [Special Issue]. Journal of Educational Foundations.
- Brown, A. D., Brooks, J.G., & Gunzenhauser, M. G. (2008, forthcoming). Katrina and the privilege of despair:
Welch’s model of connection in teaching for racial justice. Philosophical Studies in Education, 39.
- 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. (2008). On becoming-in-education: An excursion of mythopoetic proportions. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Dayton, OH, October 16-18, 2008.
- 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 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.
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Recent Fellowships, Awards, and Honors
- School of Education Alumni Doctoral Fellowship, (July 2008-2009)
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