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Erik Elshire

Teaching Assistant

Gender and Women's Studies

Doctoral Student, Educational Policy Studies

Pronouns: he/him

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Building & Room:

UH 1208

About

I am a doctoral student in Educational Policy Studies, Social Foundations in my fourth year at UIC. My former work involved teaching high school English, facilitating and training in restorative justice for high school students and teachers, environmental justice activism and organizing, and various labor jobs. Some of my interests are: the co-option of language in education and elsewhere; struggles against U.S. imperialism and settler colonialism, and how education permits, resists, and refuses both; AI and the internet as technologies of empire, and their relationship with education. My current research is on the co-option of educational concepts within US K-12 schools, and what critical educators' visions tell us about the possibility of transformation in and out of these schools.