E M Mcmain
Biographic Data
| ID | 5544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E M Mcmain |
| GIVEN NAMES | E M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmain |
| SIGNATURE | MCMAIN E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2267-9590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hot-Spots, Diffractions, and Interstellar Poetry
Seldom is self-directed violence, whether suicidal or nonsuicidal, explored in postqualitative and arts-based ways that eschew binary thinking (e.g., safe/unsafe, researcher/researched). This article explores self-directed violence as part of a dynamic assemblage that includes myriad subjectivities, social discourses, materialities, theory, and data from various spaces—including Reddit. Drawing from MacLure’s notion of “hot-spots” and from poetic…
Unsettling an “Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables” Analogy of Social and Emotional Learning
Reflections on teacher-researcher collaboration in a design-based science education project
When empty stomachs become flattened identities
Podcasting as a Critical Methodology
In an attempt to exceed the constraints of academic writing and dominant approaches to inquiry, we expand in this article on an emergent arts-based methodology that utilizes voice and orality: critical podcasting methodology (CPM). We first review the paradigm of arts-based research that grounds CPM. Next, we introduce podcasting as a form of critical research and CPM as one possibility for a radical form of inquiry and knowledge creation. Follow…
Many Ways to Lead
As global climate injustices worsen, sport has the potential to spur climate action through various connections (e.g., athletes to fans, sports teams to sponsors). However, sport's entanglement with capitalism and colonialism is often ignored. In this article, the authors conducted a critical discourse analysis of 20 episodes from four podcast channels on sport and sustainability. The results show how discourses around 'sport as an influencer of …
The kids are (not) alright
Horrors of the Great Banal
The iPhone 62 has just been released. Political gridlock and the governmentally approved process of locking immigrant children in cages continue ad infinitum. Public schools resort to primarily remote learning as pandemic viruses ebb and flow. University students study post-postmodernism on campuses that remain on stolen Indigenous land. In this year of 2071, where humans remain desperately attached to “normalcy,” suffering continues beneath the …
Drawing the line
School rules, classroom norms, and social and emotional learning (SEL) modules carefully define, hone, and regulate what counts as “appropriate” and “inappropriate” behavior from students. While the stated intention behind these practices is typically to promote a sense of safety, well-being, and productivity in schooling, behavioral rules can also uphold racist, ableist, and neoliberal practices that pathologize and exclude children’s bodily exp…
Getting good at bad emotion
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a growing phenomenon in countries around the globe. With this increase in formalized ways to recognize, define, and nurture social and emotional personhood comes a need for more critical attention toward the affective-discursive practices (i.e. culturally- and materially-habituated patterns of feeling, thinking, and relating) that shape and constrain what social and emotional personhood is and what it could …
The “Problem Tree” of SEL
Amidst intersecting sociopolitical conversations around social and emotional learning (SEL), it is crucial to foster a sense of self-reflexive awareness and discursive engagement among pre-service and in-service teachers. In what I describe as a sociopolitical literature review (i.e., addressing empirical literature and public dialogue), I consider SEL through the pedagogical metaphor of a "problem tree." I contextualize SEL not only through its …
Saviors, nurturers, or magically insane
Media can both perpetuate and disrupt the patriarchal, anthropocentric discourses that shape social understandings of “woman” and “nature.” Using a braided feminist lens, we investigated media discourses about white women’s relationships with the human and more-than-human world. We present our analysis in three cases: Olivia from the novel, The Overstory; mother from the film, mother!; and Eleven from the Netflix series, Stranger Things. These ch…
I feel proud because I made them stop fighting’
Amidst essentialising discourses that circulate through educational spaces (e.g. that ‘boys will be boys’ or that boys are inherently aggressive), there is a need for more research that explores adolescent identities as complex and relational. This study considers the affective-discursive practices that both constrain and enable teenage boys to discourage physical fights. Critical discourse analysis techniques, informed by critical affect studies…
Ethnically Diverse Adolescents Recount Third-Party Actions That Amplify Their Anger and Calm Their Emotions After Perceived Victimization
Third-party adolescents (those aware of peer conflict as neither aggressors nor victims) can help shape their peers' emotional responses to perceived victimization. Emotion regulation promotes resilience for those who have been victimized, and heightened anger can exacerbate negative outcomes. This study sought to understand how ethnically diverse victimized adolescents described third-party actions that amplified their anger and calmed their emo…
Getting good at bad emotion
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a growing phenomenon in countries around the globe. With this increase in formalized ways to recognize, define, and nurture social and emotional personhood comes a need for more critical attention toward the affective-discursive practices (i.e. culturally- and materially-habituated patterns of feeling, thinking, and relating) that shape and constrain what social and emotional personhood is and what it could …
The “Problem Tree” of SEL
Amidst intersecting sociopolitical conversations around social and emotional learning (SEL), it is crucial to foster a sense of self-reflexive awareness and discursive engagement among pre-service and in-service teachers. In what I describe as a sociopolitical literature review (i.e., addressing empirical literature and public dialogue), I consider SEL through the pedagogical metaphor of a "problem tree." I contextualize SEL not only through its …
Ethnically Diverse Adolescents Recount Third-Party Actions That Amplify Their Anger and Calm Their Emotions After Perceived Victimization
Third-party adolescents (those aware of peer conflict as neither aggressors nor victims) can help shape their peers' emotional responses to perceived victimization. Emotion regulation promotes resilience for those who have been victimized, and heightened anger can exacerbate negative outcomes. This study sought to understand how ethnically diverse victimized adolescents described third-party actions that amplified their anger and calmed their emo…
The kids are (not) alright
Drawing the line
School rules, classroom norms, and social and emotional learning (SEL) modules carefully define, hone, and regulate what counts as “appropriate” and “inappropriate” behavior from students. While the stated intention behind these practices is typically to promote a sense of safety, well-being, and productivity in schooling, behavioral rules can also uphold racist, ableist, and neoliberal practices that pathologize and exclude children’s bodily exp…
Saviors, nurturers, or magically insane
Media can both perpetuate and disrupt the patriarchal, anthropocentric discourses that shape social understandings of “woman” and “nature.” Using a braided feminist lens, we investigated media discourses about white women’s relationships with the human and more-than-human world. We present our analysis in three cases: Olivia from the novel, The Overstory; mother from the film, mother!; and Eleven from the Netflix series, Stranger Things. These ch…
Ethnically Diverse Adolescents Recount Third-Party Actions That Amplify Their Anger and Calm Their Emotions After Perceived Victimization
Third-party adolescents (those aware of peer conflict as neither aggressors nor victims) can help shape their peers' emotional responses to perceived victimization. Emotion regulation promotes resilience for those who have been victimized, and heightened anger can exacerbate negative outcomes. This study sought to understand how ethnically diverse victimized adolescents described third-party actions that amplified their anger and calmed their emo…
I feel proud because I made them stop fighting’
Amidst essentialising discourses that circulate through educational spaces (e.g. that ‘boys will be boys’ or that boys are inherently aggressive), there is a need for more research that explores adolescent identities as complex and relational. This study considers the affective-discursive practices that both constrain and enable teenage boys to discourage physical fights. Critical discourse analysis techniques, informed by critical affect studies…
Saviors, nurturers, or magically insane
Media can both perpetuate and disrupt the patriarchal, anthropocentric discourses that shape social understandings of “woman” and “nature.” Using a braided feminist lens, we investigated media discourses about white women’s relationships with the human and more-than-human world. We present our analysis in three cases: Olivia from the novel, The Overstory; mother from the film, mother!; and Eleven from the Netflix series, Stranger Things. These ch…
Horrors of the Great Banal
The iPhone 62 has just been released. Political gridlock and the governmentally approved process of locking immigrant children in cages continue ad infinitum. Public schools resort to primarily remote learning as pandemic viruses ebb and flow. University students study post-postmodernism on campuses that remain on stolen Indigenous land. In this year of 2071, where humans remain desperately attached to “normalcy,” suffering continues beneath the …
Drawing the line
School rules, classroom norms, and social and emotional learning (SEL) modules carefully define, hone, and regulate what counts as “appropriate” and “inappropriate” behavior from students. While the stated intention behind these practices is typically to promote a sense of safety, well-being, and productivity in schooling, behavioral rules can also uphold racist, ableist, and neoliberal practices that pathologize and exclude children’s bodily exp…
Getting good at bad emotion
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a growing phenomenon in countries around the globe. With this increase in formalized ways to recognize, define, and nurture social and emotional personhood comes a need for more critical attention toward the affective-discursive practices (i.e. culturally- and materially-habituated patterns of feeling, thinking, and relating) that shape and constrain what social and emotional personhood is and what it could …
The “Problem Tree” of SEL
Amidst intersecting sociopolitical conversations around social and emotional learning (SEL), it is crucial to foster a sense of self-reflexive awareness and discursive engagement among pre-service and in-service teachers. In what I describe as a sociopolitical literature review (i.e., addressing empirical literature and public dialogue), I consider SEL through the pedagogical metaphor of a "problem tree." I contextualize SEL not only through its …
The kids are (not) alright
When empty stomachs become flattened identities
Podcasting as a Critical Methodology
In an attempt to exceed the constraints of academic writing and dominant approaches to inquiry, we expand in this article on an emergent arts-based methodology that utilizes voice and orality: critical podcasting methodology (CPM). We first review the paradigm of arts-based research that grounds CPM. Next, we introduce podcasting as a form of critical research and CPM as one possibility for a radical form of inquiry and knowledge creation. Follow…
Many Ways to Lead
As global climate injustices worsen, sport has the potential to spur climate action through various connections (e.g., athletes to fans, sports teams to sponsors). However, sport's entanglement with capitalism and colonialism is often ignored. In this article, the authors conducted a critical discourse analysis of 20 episodes from four podcast channels on sport and sustainability. The results show how discourses around 'sport as an influencer of …
Hot-Spots, Diffractions, and Interstellar Poetry
Seldom is self-directed violence, whether suicidal or nonsuicidal, explored in postqualitative and arts-based ways that eschew binary thinking (e.g., safe/unsafe, researcher/researched). This article explores self-directed violence as part of a dynamic assemblage that includes myriad subjectivities, social discourses, materialities, theory, and data from various spaces—including Reddit. Drawing from MacLure’s notion of “hot-spots” and from poetic…
Unsettling an “Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables” Analogy of Social and Emotional Learning
Reflections on teacher-researcher collaboration in a design-based science education project
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)