Bryan J Duarte
Biographic Data
| ID | 107794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan J Duarte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Duarte |
| SIGNATURE | DUARTE B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4414-8982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Rehearsal for the revolution”: Using theater of the oppressed to resist dehumanizing legislative discourses
This paper explores the use of Theater of the Oppressed (TO) as an approach to resist dehumanizing legislative discourse, particularly anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) and anti-LGBTQ+ policies. As educational leadership and policy scholars, we leverage TO to challenge traditional qualitative research, aiming to engage readers actively. The paper includes a script set during a contentious school board meeting, illustrating the hostile environment f…
Exposing the Color-Evasive/Tolerance Framing Tactics of Educational Actors Amidst Anti-CRT/LGBTQ + Rhetoric and Policy
Purpose: Divisive politics have quickly led to debates about “divisive” topics in schools and their regulation through state and district-level policy. We apply a lens of color-evasiveness – which we extend to include notions of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) – and critical policy analysis, to nuance how educational actors’ engaged with anti-CRT and anti-LGBTQ + rhetoric and policy. Data/Methods: We gathered data from a range of so…
Towards a Non-binary Mixed Method: Leveraging the Power of Queer Theory to Disrupt Tradition
Mixed methods researchers wishing to blur the lines between theory, paradigm, and method and/or design their studies outside of, or in combination with, previously conceptualized design typologies and procedures may feel stifled by rigid descriptions. The purpose of this paper is to reinterpret procedures for mixed methods designs through a non-binary perspective. To achieve this, I leverage Queer Theory’s emphasis on challenging and blurring bin…
Neoliberal-Racist Creep: The Steady Dismantling of Indianapolis Public Schools
In defense of books: Examining the Localized Enactment of Book Censorship Policies
Resisting Normality through a Nonbinary Quantitative Method
Critical quantitative methods provide opportunities for Queer Theory to challenge, re-define, and re-claim the historically privileged research tradition. In this paper, I begin by summarizing the various binaries that oppress research and individuality. I then engage with Queer Theory and my own intersectional positionality to propose a nonbinary quantitative methodology. Next, I draw on various examples to demonstrate the possibilities for how …
Finding Home in a Hopeless Place: Schools as Sites of Heteronormativity
For this study, we operated with a critical theoretical understanding of schools as sites of (cis)heteronormativity, which led us to question the impact of heteronormative schooling environments. We used data from the 2017 national Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System to examine the self-reported experiences and feelings of high school students with gay or lesbian, bisexual, or questioning identities. Additionally, we used a quantitative inter…
The Effects of School Choice Competition on an Underserved Neighborhood Public School
This critical ethnography utilizes critical policy analysis and a theoretical understanding of neoliberal racism to examine the practiced reality of school choice in a public, under-resourced, and historically underperforming neighborhood elementary school attended predominantly by Latina/o/x students. Despite improvement initiatives that resulted in performance distinctions, the school under study experienced substantial enrollment decline amids…
“We’re in compliance”: Reconciling teachers’ work as resistance to neoliberal policies
Neoliberal polices such as standardized testing, teacher evaluation, and student performance accountability serve as market pressures that dictate teachers’ work. In this paper, we employ critical policy analysis (CPA) and critical ethnography in order to bridge theory and method. Specifically, we apply de Certeau’s (1984) theory of consumption to examine the clandestine ways that teachers creatively resist the policies that constrain them. Our f…
Beyond Tracking: The Relationship of Opportunity to Learn and Diminished Math Outcomes for U.S. High School Students
Background/Context: In this study, we draw on evolving definitions of opportunity to learn (OTL) to conceptualize mathematics OTL has having two main components: structural OTL, defined by gatekeeping access to specific mathematics courses through the process of tracking, and instructional OTL, defined by the learning experiences of students in their mathematics courses. We also conceptualize both of these aspects of OTL as occurring in the curre…
Situating subjectivities in the macrosocial policy context: Critical/queer multifocal policy research
This essay serves as a reflexive account of a multifocal approach to policy analysis that employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative study examined the relationship between principals’ perceived levels of instructional influence and teachers’ perceptions of their working conditions using a nationally generalizable sample. The qualitative study employed critical ethnographic methods to study the subjectivity of teachers a…
Part of Their Chemistry: The Reproduction of Neoliberal Governmentality in Principal and Teacher Subjectivities
In the voyage to increase student achievement, centralized education agencies apply pressure to school principals and teachers in ways that transform their work. This critical ethnographic study of a historically underperforming public elementary school serving predominantly Latinx/a/o students in Texas utilized poststructural theories of subjectivity to demonstrate how the political system of educational policy governs, in plural and contradicto…
In defense of books: Examining the Localized Enactment of Book Censorship Policies
Resisting Normality through a Nonbinary Quantitative Method
Critical quantitative methods provide opportunities for Queer Theory to challenge, re-define, and re-claim the historically privileged research tradition. In this paper, I begin by summarizing the various binaries that oppress research and individuality. I then engage with Queer Theory and my own intersectional positionality to propose a nonbinary quantitative methodology. Next, I draw on various examples to demonstrate the possibilities for how …
Situating subjectivities in the macrosocial policy context: Critical/queer multifocal policy research
This essay serves as a reflexive account of a multifocal approach to policy analysis that employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative study examined the relationship between principals’ perceived levels of instructional influence and teachers’ perceptions of their working conditions using a nationally generalizable sample. The qualitative study employed critical ethnographic methods to study the subjectivity of teachers a…
Neoliberal-Racist Creep: The Steady Dismantling of Indianapolis Public Schools
Situating subjectivities in the macrosocial policy context: Critical/queer multifocal policy research
This essay serves as a reflexive account of a multifocal approach to policy analysis that employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative study examined the relationship between principals’ perceived levels of instructional influence and teachers’ perceptions of their working conditions using a nationally generalizable sample. The qualitative study employed critical ethnographic methods to study the subjectivity of teachers a…
Part of Their Chemistry: The Reproduction of Neoliberal Governmentality in Principal and Teacher Subjectivities
In the voyage to increase student achievement, centralized education agencies apply pressure to school principals and teachers in ways that transform their work. This critical ethnographic study of a historically underperforming public elementary school serving predominantly Latinx/a/o students in Texas utilized poststructural theories of subjectivity to demonstrate how the political system of educational policy governs, in plural and contradicto…
“We’re in compliance”: Reconciling teachers’ work as resistance to neoliberal policies
Neoliberal polices such as standardized testing, teacher evaluation, and student performance accountability serve as market pressures that dictate teachers’ work. In this paper, we employ critical policy analysis (CPA) and critical ethnography in order to bridge theory and method. Specifically, we apply de Certeau’s (1984) theory of consumption to examine the clandestine ways that teachers creatively resist the policies that constrain them. Our f…
Beyond Tracking: The Relationship of Opportunity to Learn and Diminished Math Outcomes for U.S. High School Students
Background/Context: In this study, we draw on evolving definitions of opportunity to learn (OTL) to conceptualize mathematics OTL has having two main components: structural OTL, defined by gatekeeping access to specific mathematics courses through the process of tracking, and instructional OTL, defined by the learning experiences of students in their mathematics courses. We also conceptualize both of these aspects of OTL as occurring in the curre…
Finding Home in a Hopeless Place: Schools as Sites of Heteronormativity
For this study, we operated with a critical theoretical understanding of schools as sites of (cis)heteronormativity, which led us to question the impact of heteronormative schooling environments. We used data from the 2017 national Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System to examine the self-reported experiences and feelings of high school students with gay or lesbian, bisexual, or questioning identities. Additionally, we used a quantitative inter…
The Effects of School Choice Competition on an Underserved Neighborhood Public School
This critical ethnography utilizes critical policy analysis and a theoretical understanding of neoliberal racism to examine the practiced reality of school choice in a public, under-resourced, and historically underperforming neighborhood elementary school attended predominantly by Latina/o/x students. Despite improvement initiatives that resulted in performance distinctions, the school under study experienced substantial enrollment decline amids…
Resisting Normality through a Nonbinary Quantitative Method
Critical quantitative methods provide opportunities for Queer Theory to challenge, re-define, and re-claim the historically privileged research tradition. In this paper, I begin by summarizing the various binaries that oppress research and individuality. I then engage with Queer Theory and my own intersectional positionality to propose a nonbinary quantitative methodology. Next, I draw on various examples to demonstrate the possibilities for how …
Exposing the Color-Evasive/Tolerance Framing Tactics of Educational Actors Amidst Anti-CRT/LGBTQ + Rhetoric and Policy
Purpose: Divisive politics have quickly led to debates about “divisive” topics in schools and their regulation through state and district-level policy. We apply a lens of color-evasiveness – which we extend to include notions of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) – and critical policy analysis, to nuance how educational actors’ engaged with anti-CRT and anti-LGBTQ + rhetoric and policy. Data/Methods: We gathered data from a range of so…
Towards a Non-binary Mixed Method: Leveraging the Power of Queer Theory to Disrupt Tradition
Mixed methods researchers wishing to blur the lines between theory, paradigm, and method and/or design their studies outside of, or in combination with, previously conceptualized design typologies and procedures may feel stifled by rigid descriptions. The purpose of this paper is to reinterpret procedures for mixed methods designs through a non-binary perspective. To achieve this, I leverage Queer Theory’s emphasis on challenging and blurring bin…
Neoliberal-Racist Creep: The Steady Dismantling of Indianapolis Public Schools
In defense of books: Examining the Localized Enactment of Book Censorship Policies
“Rehearsal for the revolution”: Using theater of the oppressed to resist dehumanizing legislative discourses
This paper explores the use of Theater of the Oppressed (TO) as an approach to resist dehumanizing legislative discourse, particularly anti-Critical Race Theory (CRT) and anti-LGBTQ+ policies. As educational leadership and policy scholars, we leverage TO to challenge traditional qualitative research, aiming to engage readers actively. The paper includes a script set during a contentious school board meeting, illustrating the hostile environment f…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 works)