E Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 30697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8242-3984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Leading in Times of ‘Normal Madness’
Educational leaders who name and challenge status quo injustices are often positioned as, “the angry leader.” We problematize these patterned, deficit framings to ask: How might anger, and what we specify as “righteous rage,” offer a strategic leadership resource amid climates of normalized oppression? Guided by Sandy Grande’s Red Pedagogy, we trace the historical constitution of the rational, emotionless managerial leader. We argue that prevaili…
Allied Attestations
Increasingly fraught disputes over education have elevated local school boards as key sites of inquiry. In this critical ethnography, we examine how ostensibly neutral school board rules, routines, and relations play out in practice. We asked, How do (queer) youth of color proponents, white opponents, and white allies of an anti-oppressive educational program exercise their agency within the organizational contexts of one suburban California scho…
Toward Pedagogical Justice
How can educators create space for students to practice making the worlds we are trying to collectively build? Inspired by genealogies that are grounded in and emerge from social movements, this paper uplifts the possibilities, tensions, and new questions that emerge when we take seriously the role of our classroom pedagogies. The authors offer a reflexive, methodological approach that pushes against the theory/practice divide and that stays with…
ʻYou gotta be responsibleʼ
Recent scholarship has focused on the vital role of social movement organizations as key pathways into activism. Yet attention to how learning unfolds within social movement organizations has not been adequately studied. Informed by critical learning sciences, we investigated Kokua Hawaii, a social movement organization that catalyzed a near half century of grassroots activism throughout Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. We argue that Kokua Hawaii offered…
Educational Leadership as Accompaniment
Background/Context: Youth activism, the broad-based leadership among young people who seek to challenge and build alternatives to oppressive social systems, has spread across the nation and globe. Yet youth activism is often hemmed in at school gates, particularly by school leaders charged with maintaining efficient school environments. Focus of Study: This article explores the roles and responsibilities of educational leaders committed to justic…
Curricular Countermovements
In this critical ethnography, Ethan Chang investigates how white parent-activists organized an oppositional movement to ethnic studies. Drawing on critical whiteness studies, cultural studies, and studies of countermovements, he argues that these parents crafted an oppositional narrative that positioned white, Christian, American boys as victims of ethnic studies curricula. Chang then traces how the parents leveraged this narrative to forge a coa…
Toward a Just Leadership Learning Ecology
Purpose: This paper conceptualizes a just leadership learning ecology through an analysis of one nontraditional site of leadership preparation: the Highlander Research and Education Center (originally founded as the Highlander Folk School). Methodology: Drawing on cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and institutional theory (IT), we examine the core design and pedagogy of Highlander, which co-founder, Myles Horton, referred to as the “High…
Interrupting a white will to improve
This critical case study investigates the cultural politics of one urban renewal effort rhetorically designed to serve the needs of most marginalized community members in Oakland, California. We extend recent scholarship examining the broader landscapes of young people’s lives and examine how the “urban” is made and remade in ways that impact education equity. Informed by critical urban theory and critical whiteness studies, we argue that urban p…
Separating families, recuperating the “nation-as-family”
This study investigates the intersections of policy, affect, and the lives of migrant youth. We approach the Trump Administration’s contingent reversal of a “zero tolerance” family separation policy as an illustrative case for understanding how affect mediates policy-making processes. Combining Critical Policy Analysis (CPA) and affect studies, we analyze 184 print media texts between the declaration of zero tolerance (May 2018) and President Tru…
Researching as a critical secretary
This paper proposes a strategy for ethnographically investigating politically disparate education organizations. I develop the notion of researching as a critical secretary: a method of participant-observation conducted alongside those observed to hold the least formal power. Drawing on data from an initial empirical effort to implement this approach, I reflexively examine how this strategy supported my efforts to problematize gendered and racial…
Beyond workforce preparation
Contrary to educational policy and research assumptions about an immanent ‘twenty-first century’ future, this article uses the concept of ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’ to trace how nonprofit actors in California invented and materialized distinctive visions of educational progress. Drawing on interview and ethnographic fieldnote data, I illustrate two contrasting sociotechnical visions: A Silicon Valley vision that aimed to reduce inequalities in …
Researching as a critical secretary
This paper proposes a strategy for ethnographically investigating politically disparate education organizations. I develop the notion of researching as a critical secretary: a method of participant-observation conducted alongside those observed to hold the least formal power. Drawing on data from an initial empirical effort to implement this approach, I reflexively examine how this strategy supported my efforts to problematize gendered and racial…
ʻYou gotta be responsibleʼ
Recent scholarship has focused on the vital role of social movement organizations as key pathways into activism. Yet attention to how learning unfolds within social movement organizations has not been adequately studied. Informed by critical learning sciences, we investigated Kokua Hawaii, a social movement organization that catalyzed a near half century of grassroots activism throughout Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. We argue that Kokua Hawaii offered…
Beyond workforce preparation
Contrary to educational policy and research assumptions about an immanent ‘twenty-first century’ future, this article uses the concept of ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’ to trace how nonprofit actors in California invented and materialized distinctive visions of educational progress. Drawing on interview and ethnographic fieldnote data, I illustrate two contrasting sociotechnical visions: A Silicon Valley vision that aimed to reduce inequalities in …
Beyond workforce preparation
Contrary to educational policy and research assumptions about an immanent ‘twenty-first century’ future, this article uses the concept of ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’ to trace how nonprofit actors in California invented and materialized distinctive visions of educational progress. Drawing on interview and ethnographic fieldnote data, I illustrate two contrasting sociotechnical visions: A Silicon Valley vision that aimed to reduce inequalities in …
Separating families, recuperating the “nation-as-family”
This study investigates the intersections of policy, affect, and the lives of migrant youth. We approach the Trump Administration’s contingent reversal of a “zero tolerance” family separation policy as an illustrative case for understanding how affect mediates policy-making processes. Combining Critical Policy Analysis (CPA) and affect studies, we analyze 184 print media texts between the declaration of zero tolerance (May 2018) and President Tru…
Researching as a critical secretary
This paper proposes a strategy for ethnographically investigating politically disparate education organizations. I develop the notion of researching as a critical secretary: a method of participant-observation conducted alongside those observed to hold the least formal power. Drawing on data from an initial empirical effort to implement this approach, I reflexively examine how this strategy supported my efforts to problematize gendered and racial…
Educational Leadership as Accompaniment
Background/Context: Youth activism, the broad-based leadership among young people who seek to challenge and build alternatives to oppressive social systems, has spread across the nation and globe. Yet youth activism is often hemmed in at school gates, particularly by school leaders charged with maintaining efficient school environments. Focus of Study: This article explores the roles and responsibilities of educational leaders committed to justic…
Curricular Countermovements
In this critical ethnography, Ethan Chang investigates how white parent-activists organized an oppositional movement to ethnic studies. Drawing on critical whiteness studies, cultural studies, and studies of countermovements, he argues that these parents crafted an oppositional narrative that positioned white, Christian, American boys as victims of ethnic studies curricula. Chang then traces how the parents leveraged this narrative to forge a coa…
Toward a Just Leadership Learning Ecology
Purpose: This paper conceptualizes a just leadership learning ecology through an analysis of one nontraditional site of leadership preparation: the Highlander Research and Education Center (originally founded as the Highlander Folk School). Methodology: Drawing on cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and institutional theory (IT), we examine the core design and pedagogy of Highlander, which co-founder, Myles Horton, referred to as the “High…
Interrupting a white will to improve
This critical case study investigates the cultural politics of one urban renewal effort rhetorically designed to serve the needs of most marginalized community members in Oakland, California. We extend recent scholarship examining the broader landscapes of young people’s lives and examine how the “urban” is made and remade in ways that impact education equity. Informed by critical urban theory and critical whiteness studies, we argue that urban p…
Allied Attestations
Increasingly fraught disputes over education have elevated local school boards as key sites of inquiry. In this critical ethnography, we examine how ostensibly neutral school board rules, routines, and relations play out in practice. We asked, How do (queer) youth of color proponents, white opponents, and white allies of an anti-oppressive educational program exercise their agency within the organizational contexts of one suburban California scho…
Toward Pedagogical Justice
How can educators create space for students to practice making the worlds we are trying to collectively build? Inspired by genealogies that are grounded in and emerge from social movements, this paper uplifts the possibilities, tensions, and new questions that emerge when we take seriously the role of our classroom pedagogies. The authors offer a reflexive, methodological approach that pushes against the theory/practice divide and that stays with…
ʻYou gotta be responsibleʼ
Recent scholarship has focused on the vital role of social movement organizations as key pathways into activism. Yet attention to how learning unfolds within social movement organizations has not been adequately studied. Informed by critical learning sciences, we investigated Kokua Hawaii, a social movement organization that catalyzed a near half century of grassroots activism throughout Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. We argue that Kokua Hawaii offered…
Leading in Times of ‘Normal Madness’
Educational leaders who name and challenge status quo injustices are often positioned as, “the angry leader.” We problematize these patterned, deficit framings to ask: How might anger, and what we specify as “righteous rage,” offer a strategic leadership resource amid climates of normalized oppression? Guided by Sandy Grande’s Red Pedagogy, we trace the historical constitution of the rational, emotionless managerial leader. We argue that prevaili…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (5 works) · Praxis (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)