Childhood play spaces as What-If Worlds: The uncertainties of misogyny, racism, and classism

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Georgia

Stephanie Jones likes thinking about how learning happens, including how children and adults learn and mutate the literacies of misogyny, sexism, racism and classism.

Her most recent research focuses on an informal neighborhood play space, where she uses feminist new materialist theories to make sense of power, place and possibility. She is concerned about issues of justice and the opportunities people have or dont have to expand and change in ways they find inspiring and fulfilling.

Stephanies research has been recognized nationally and internationally, including two awards in the United States for her latest book, On Mutant Pedagogies: Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education(with James F. Woglom).