The Weekly Recap
News And Updates From Across BU Wheelock SPACE This Week
Welcome to this week’s recap! This week we share recent community events, provide details on recent faculty engagement, and highlight news mentions and recently published research.
Out and About
Raul Fernandez (Senior Lecturer, BU Wheelock), Sidrah Baloch (Assist. Director, Wheelock Educational Policy Center), and Cara Mattaliano (Assist. Director, SPACE) attended the opening retreat of the Rennie Center Massachusetts Education Policy Fellowship (MEPF) on Tuesday. The MEPF is a ten-month professional development program for established and emerging education leaders designed to strengthen their knowledge and understanding of public policy making.
Faculty Engagement
Class Dismissed - Anthony Jack (Assoc. Professor, BU Wheelock) was in conversation with Adam Harris, senior fellow at New America and award-winning journalist, at Politics and Prose in Washington D.C.
In the News
Planet Grok: My son and I spent a week with an artificially intelligent stuffed rocket ship - and glimpsed the eerie and irritating future of play, The Cut (Postdoctoral Research Assoc. Jenny Nissel quoted), August 16, 2024
Research That Matters
Duoethnography: “Our own ring of stones in the river”: duoethnography as haven for women of color in the academy (co-published article by Assoc. Professor Christina Dobbs)
In this special issue, Christina Dobbs and Christine Montecillo Leider explain how the duoethnography space has been a “haven that allows us some refuge from the typical pressures of academia while still making that experience visible and explicit for others.”