What is cultural studies?

How does it rethink and rework education?

How are youth shaped by the cultural practices of schooling, and how do they contribute to the production of culture?

How is the culture of schooling superimposed on students' spontaneous engagement with popular culture?

How are teachers, administrators, and policy-makers, in their approach to curriculum and pedagogy, influenced by their own cultural consumption and production?

Teachers College Students for a Cultural Studies Initiative (TC SCSI) is comprised of a group of graduate students representing various programs and departments at Teachers College who find common interests in their dedication to research in the area of cultural studies. TC SCSI therefore seeks to develop a lively discourse organized around cultural studies and education.

We contend that cultural studies is not just an important intellectual endeavor, but is a field that has also had a significant impact on the practice of education, and therefore ought to be supported in institutions, like TC, that focus on the preparation of educational practitioners and researchers alike.

We are therefore organizing a conference in order to highlight the work of graduate students and professionals who work within and between cultural studies and education so that we may advocate for greater collaboration between the two fields.

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