{"title":"Carnival and the Fake School: Transgressing the Vertical Imaginary of Education with and for Young Children","authors":"Erin Dyke","doi":"10.1080/00131946.2023.2169694","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines the collective labor of imagining one educational world among myself and six middle-income, racially- and gender-diverse six- and seven year-olds via a two-year critical participatory ethnography of a six-family (including my own) pandemic cooperative—Fake School, as the kids playfully named it. Fake School was initially a semester-long temporary stopgap to arrange shared childcare amid remote learning that became a two-year collective project through the uncertainties and surges of the pandemic. Drawing on Stallybrass and White, I use carnival as an analytic to explore the verticalist imaginary of the education-based mode of study. I seek to narrate our Fake School situated within the broader context of the predominating notions of normalcy that delimit possible futures for public education. I suggest that the emergent educational world we briefly created offers important insights for authorizing young children’s perspectives on the future of education.","PeriodicalId":46285,"journal":{"name":"Educational Studies-AESA","volume":"59 1","pages":"124 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Educational Studies-AESA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2023.2169694","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This study examines the collective labor of imagining one educational world among myself and six middle-income, racially- and gender-diverse six- and seven year-olds via a two-year critical participatory ethnography of a six-family (including my own) pandemic cooperative—Fake School, as the kids playfully named it. Fake School was initially a semester-long temporary stopgap to arrange shared childcare amid remote learning that became a two-year collective project through the uncertainties and surges of the pandemic. Drawing on Stallybrass and White, I use carnival as an analytic to explore the verticalist imaginary of the education-based mode of study. I seek to narrate our Fake School situated within the broader context of the predominating notions of normalcy that delimit possible futures for public education. I suggest that the emergent educational world we briefly created offers important insights for authorizing young children’s perspectives on the future of education.