Episode 35: Johnnie Jackson, Meditating Gunrunner Speaking, Part 1: A Black Male Journey Teaching in South Korea
Today’s episode is the first within a series that I’ve titled the EDpat literature review. Threaded throughout the various episodes within Season 3, you’ll hear the voices of Black researchers, bloggers, authors, and other literaries who have written some form of literature that centers notions of the Edpat— those who work within various ventures within education outside of their home countries.
In this episode, you’ll hear from Johnnie Jackson, a doctoral student in Educational Leadership and Administration at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also the Diversity and Equity Supervisor at Marion City School District. His research article, Meditating Gunrunner Speaking, Part 1: A Black Male Journey Teaching in South Korea was published in Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association in September of 2016.
I had an amazing conversation with Johnnie about his experience teaching in South Korea and also his lived experience, which inspired many sections of the article. Keep in mind that this episode was recorded through video chat and within certain areas, due to fluctuations within internet connectivity, the sound is distorted. Without further delay, please enjoy my conversation with Johnnie Jackson.
Brief Guest Bio: Johnny Jackson (he, his) is a teacher educator by training. He is a critical race theorist and abolitionist by practice. Currently serving in his home community as an equity and diversity supervisor for city schools, he believes that education for Black liberation is possible when centering autobiographies of Black radicals. Traveling to countries outside of the USA has given him a good sense of how the African/Black diaspora is creating Afrofutures for the past, current, and future generations.
You can access the article, Meditating Gunrunner Speaking, Part 1 at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131946.2016.1214917?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Or email Johnny directly at jjackson2@mcspresidents.org
Other articles and resources mentioned in the episode:
Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated) Aug 1, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmq9gw4Rq0
AfroAsian Imaginations: Autoethnographyies of Black Panther in South Korea. https://jfsdigital.org/articles-and-essays/vol-24-no-2-december-2019/afroasian-imaginations-autoethnographies-of-black-panther-in-korea/
The Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice http://www.jctonline.org/conference/
JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing is an interdisciplinary journal of curriculum studies. It offers an academic forum for scholarly discussions of curriculum. Historically aligned with the “reconceptualist” movement in curriculum theorizing, and oriented toward informing and affecting classroom practice, JCT presents compelling pieces within forms that challenge disciplinary, genre, and textual boundaries. The journal is associated with the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, held in the autumn of each year. JCT is indexed in The Education Index.
SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES:
Email address: jjackson2@mcspresidents.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnieljackson/
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