Erik Elshire
Teaching Assistant
Gender and Women's Studies
Doctoral Student, Educational Policy Studies
Pronouns: he/him
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UH 1208
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About
I bake a good focaccia bread, write readable poems sometimes, and I'm currently a doctoral candidate in Educational Policy Studies. 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 academic interests are: the co-option of language in education and elsewhere; how schools work in a dying U.S. imperial and settler colonial nation-state, and how education permits, resists, and refuses them; AI and the internet as technologies of empire and their relationship with education: questions and cases of how/why people might use them toward decolonization and different educative processes. 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.