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“It’s a discipline problem: How eugenic ideology persists within social studies curricula”

Saturday, March 8th
9:00 AM  - 10:10 AM

Tadashi Dozono

KEYNOTE DESCRIPTION

Tadashi Dozono is an associate professor of history/social science education at CSU Channel Islands. His book, Discipline Problems: How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools (University of Pennsylvania Press), is an ethnographic study that centers the thinking of twelve tenth-grade Black and Latinx students labeled as “troublemakers” from a low-income urban public high school, reframing troublemaking from a behavioral deficit to an intellectual asset and distinct form of reasoning. Tadashi’s research has been published in Theory & Research in Social Education, Urban Education, Race Ethnicity and Education, Equity & Excellence in Education, The History Teacher, and Theory into Practice.

BIO

Tadashi Dozono is an associate professor of history/social science education at California State University Channel Islands. Through cultural studies, ethnic studies, queer theory, and critical theory, Tadashi’s research emphasizes accountability towards the experiences of marginalized students by examining the production of knowledge in social studies classrooms. His work centers the theorizing that Black, Indigenous, People of Color and LGBTQ students engage daily due to their marginalization. Tadashi draws on his experiences as a queer Japanese American cis-male and over twelve years of teaching social studies in New York City public schools. His recent book, Discipline Problems: How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools (2024, University of Pennsylvania Press), is an ethnographic study that centers the thinking of twelve tenth-grade Black and Latinx students labeled as “troublemakers” from a low-income urban public high school, reframing troublemaking from a behavioral deficit to an intellectual asset and distinct form of reasoning. He received his PhD in social and cultural studies from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, and his MA in social studies teaching from Columbia Teachers College. His research has been published in journals such as Theory & Research in Social Education, Urban Education, Race Ethnicity and Education, Equity & Excellence in Education, The History Teacher, Critical Studies in Education, and Theory into Practice.