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Publication Date: 2018
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Spoken Word as Public Pedagogy: Conceptualizing a Prophetic Public
Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, v15 n3 p238-258 2018
Glenn Savage (2014) poses a serious issue to the field of public pedagogy: to articulate what "form" of public is being evoked in and by the research. In this article, I will conceptualize the formation of a prophetic public, one that exhibits both critique and hope, hallmarks of the prophetic stance. This research is grounded in a single case study of a Latino spoken word artist, Salvador Rivas (a pseudonym) and draws upon arts-based educational research (ABER) in the presentation and analysis of the data. Through a serious of extensive interviews, I explore the motivations and underlying purposes for spoken word poetry from the artist's perspective, which he articulates in a way that is akin to the prophetic. That is, he articulates the spoken word community as one that embodies open-minded dialogue and active engagement with the world. This article will argue that this notion reveals a prophetic public, which refuses a static idea of the public and instead is based on a dialogical relationship rooted in solidarity that has the potential to disrupt the power dynamics of the pedagogue/public relationship.
Descriptors: Poetry, Teaching Methods, Hispanic Americans, Citizen Participation, Power Structure, Resistance (Psychology), Informal Education, Mass Instruction, Social Change, Educational Research
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Language: English
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