All presentations are copyrighted by Kristidel McGregor. You may use all of part of these presentations for educational purposes, but must credit the author.
Peer Reviewed Conference Presentations
School Bathrooms as Socially Productive Space
To be presented at the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry in May 2020.
School Bathrooms and the public imagination
To be presented at the American Educational Research Association conference in April 2020, as part of the roundtable session Critical Conversations on the Social Context of Educational Policy
Tue, April 21, 8:15 to 9:45am, Moscone Center, Floor: North Building, Exhibition Level, Room 24
The Ethics of Entanglement: using a phenomenology of the material to study school bathrooms
To be presented at the American Educational Research Association conference in April 2020, as part of the roundtable session Phenomenology: Beyond Experience
Mon, April 20, 4:05 to 5:35pm, Moscone Center, Floor: North Building, Exhibition Level, Room 24
Necessary Spaces: Using a phenomenology of the material to investigate school bathrooms
Presented at the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, in May 2019. In this presentation, I consider how using a theoretical framework based in Barad’s agential realism influences how I design a qualitative research study.
Becoming-Writer: Preservice teachers’ relationships with texts
Presented at the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, in May 2019. In this presentation, I consider how building relationships with mentor texts influences whether preservice teachers self-identify as writers.
Classroom Spaces as Entangled Materiality
“When you enter a classroom, you are entangled with what you find there. The color of the classroom walls, bulletin board arrangements, decorations, and designs are vibrant, active material. The distinctive smells, the fall of light, the way the floor meets your foot: all are productive. When adults return to classrooms, they often express how being back in that space is evocative – a feeling in the body as they become of and with that space, both harkening back to previous classrooms and yet situated in the now: an immediate specific happening. Classrooms are not inert, lifeless space, but are filled with lively matter; books, boards, desk, decorations, students, teachers all are part of an ongoing intra-active becoming. In this view, curriculum is not a static list of learning objectives placed on a high shelf, but it is rather an active maker of curricular practices. The classroom space itself, then, is an active part of the learning that happens there.”
Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, April 2018.
Towards a Phenomenology of the Material
This was a structured post session, based around the contributors to Mark Vagel, Brooke Hofsess, and Jaye Johnson Thiel‘s special edition of the journal Qualitative Inquiry on post-phenomenology and hermeneutic inquiry. For the session, I reimagined an early draft of my paper Towards a Phenomenology of the Material as an interactive art piece. I used two sets of identical materials to create a pair of objects. First, I created a flat board with viewing apparatus to simulate the experience of doing traditional inquiry. Next, I made a mobile to simulate the challenges, rewards, and possibilities of viewing the same material using different methods.
Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, April 2018.
As Seen on TV:Media Portrayals of Teachers.
Presented at the 7th Conference on Education and Social Justice, December 2017
Curriculum and Place
Presented with Belcher, D. C., Fitch, K., Johnson, S.R.H., Snyder, J. at the American Education Studies Association, November 2016
Interrupted Flow: Patriarchal Structures and the Menstruating Teacher
Presented to the Society for Educating Women Special Interest Group at the American Education Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2016.
Other Presentations
Private Matters, Public Debates:
School Bathrooms, Bathroom Policy, and Students
Presented at TeachIN at the University of Oregon
November 17, 2018
In this presentation, intended for pre-service teachers, I outline the socio-historical context of school bathrooms, past and present. I then lead a discussion of how school bathroom policy influences teaching and learning.
Picture Credits:
“unisex bathrooms” by Andrea_R is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
“classroom 2nd fl” by cayoup is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
“‘thoughts’ pencils” by Zhenia Perutska is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
Kristidel McGregor 