Aera Presidential AddressDiscretionary Spaces
The Power of Teaching in the Struggle for Justice in and Through Public Education
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 9730499 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Deborah Loewenberg Ball (0000-0002-0399-0316, University of Michigan, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2026 |
| Volumen | 55 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 155-172 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2026-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Editorial | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x251389934 |
| OpenAlex | W4416825359 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 61 |
Although teaching is one of the most common occupations, experienced by nearly all individuals and enacted by millions of professionals, its power to reproduce or disrupt oppression is often underestimated. Situated within broader social, political, and historical contexts, teaching reflects and is shaped by enduring patterns that marginalize groups of people, forms of knowledge, and ways of knowing. Yet this is not only a macro-level phenomenon; through everyday micro-interactions, teaching can nurture students’ flourishing or constrain their learning and identities. Building on scholarship on discretion in professional practice and policy implementation, I argue that teaching’s potency derives in significant part from the discretionary spaces inherent in its enactment. These spaces of interpretation, choice, and action are both ubiquitous and structured by broader systems of oppression. By conceptualizing discretion as both a risk and a resource, this analysis advances theoretical understandings of teaching and underscores the ethical, political, and educational stakes of teachers’ work, pointing to an expanded role for professional education
Discretion · Economic Justice · Flourishing · Nature versus nurture · Oppression · Power (physics · Power structure · Presidential address · Scholarship · Situated · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies · Innovative Education and Learning Practices
Their Highest Potential
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Linguistic Justice
Resources, Instruction, and Research
Constructing competence
Discretion and Disproportionality
Generalizations about Using Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality
HER Classic Reprint - Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations
The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Black Male Students, Schools, and Learning in Enhancing the Knowledge Base to Disrupt Deficit Frameworks
Diversifying Teaching and Teacher Education
Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II
Girlhood Interrupted
Student Social Class and Teacher Expectations
The Practical 3
I’m Here for the Hard Re-Set
Cops, Teachers, Counselors
Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth
At Last
I mean, obviously you're using your discretion’
Towards a socio-technical understanding of discretion
The Legacy of the 1968 Fair Housing Act
Following the Child, Socioanalysis, and Threats to Community
Why Are Students of Color (Still) Punished More Severely and Frequently Than White Students
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Improving Admission of Low-SES Students at Selective Colleges
Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture—What Makes Education Research “Educational”
President’s Column
When Tribal Sovereignty Challenges Democracy
Beyond Declines in Student Body Diversity
Smartness as a Cultural Practice in Schools
Reading between the lines and beyond the pages
Funds of knowledge for teaching
From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt
State Agent or Citizen Agent
Discretion, power and the reproduction of inequality in health policy implementation
Against the Dark
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citas por año | 1 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |