Rhiannon M Maton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4607852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhiannon M Maton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhiannon M |
| FAMILY NAME | Maton |
| SIGNATURE | MATON R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1658-5205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
For Once We’re Asking for More Testing
This article explores organisational infrastructure in the movement for safe schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on several qualitative studies of educator organising during the pandemic, this article shows that educators across the United States have organised through a range of social movement organisations, including national grassroots networks, regional grassroots networks, unions, social justice caucuses, and building-based commit…
White Parent and Caregiver Perceptions of, and Resistance to, Equity and Anti-Racism Work in an Independent School
Background: Between early 2020 and today, our society has experienced a distressing global pandemic, horrifying brutalities committed against BIPOC individuals and communities, uprisings for racial justice, and a violent attack on our nation’s capital. While these events and phenomena have been challenging and traumatic, they have also inspired calls for equity-focused action within and beyond schools. Purpose: Many schools have intensified their…
Opposing Innovations
This article uses oral history, archival material, and published primary sources to examine the competing conceptions of “innovation” at work in the creation and operation of the West Philadelphia Community Free School (WPCFS) from 1969 to 1978. One of the longest-running initiatives in the School District of Philadelphia's experimental Office of Innovative Programs, the WPCFS stood at the crossroads of conflicting imperatives for “innovation.” T…
Fighting on the frontlines
This article explores a growing trend in the politics of education: the intersectional frontline organizing work of educators' social justice unions on behalf of a woman‐dominated workforce and local students, families, and communities, many of whom experience racial and economic disparity. I show that educators' social justice unions have tended to coherently employ intersectional language to articulate student, family, and community need along …
From neoliberalism to structural racism
Philadelphia’s teacher-led activist group, the Caucus of Working Educators, has displayed shifts in how it frames the central problems facing public education since its emergence in 2014. Initially, the organization tended to advance the notion that neoliberalist discourses and values were primarily responsible for “education reform” effects, including underfunded schools and districts, shrinking public school districts, and the privatization of …
Teachers’ work and innovation in alternative schools
Toronto boasts a large and diverse system of public alternative schools: schools where democratic practices, student access and a commitment to public education are fundamental. There are academic schools; schools with thematically focused curricula; schools driven by social movement principles such as antiracism and global education; schools for students who do not thrive in mainstream schools; and schools with alternative scheduling and deliver…
From neoliberalism to structural racism
Philadelphia’s teacher-led activist group, the Caucus of Working Educators, has displayed shifts in how it frames the central problems facing public education since its emergence in 2014. Initially, the organization tended to advance the notion that neoliberalist discourses and values were primarily responsible for “education reform” effects, including underfunded schools and districts, shrinking public school districts, and the privatization of …
Fighting on the frontlines
This article explores a growing trend in the politics of education: the intersectional frontline organizing work of educators' social justice unions on behalf of a woman‐dominated workforce and local students, families, and communities, many of whom experience racial and economic disparity. I show that educators' social justice unions have tended to coherently employ intersectional language to articulate student, family, and community need along …
Teachers’ work and innovation in alternative schools
Toronto boasts a large and diverse system of public alternative schools: schools where democratic practices, student access and a commitment to public education are fundamental. There are academic schools; schools with thematically focused curricula; schools driven by social movement principles such as antiracism and global education; schools for students who do not thrive in mainstream schools; and schools with alternative scheduling and deliver…
Teachers’ work and innovation in alternative schools
Toronto boasts a large and diverse system of public alternative schools: schools where democratic practices, student access and a commitment to public education are fundamental. There are academic schools; schools with thematically focused curricula; schools driven by social movement principles such as antiracism and global education; schools for students who do not thrive in mainstream schools; and schools with alternative scheduling and deliver…
From neoliberalism to structural racism
Philadelphia’s teacher-led activist group, the Caucus of Working Educators, has displayed shifts in how it frames the central problems facing public education since its emergence in 2014. Initially, the organization tended to advance the notion that neoliberalist discourses and values were primarily responsible for “education reform” effects, including underfunded schools and districts, shrinking public school districts, and the privatization of …
Fighting on the frontlines
This article explores a growing trend in the politics of education: the intersectional frontline organizing work of educators' social justice unions on behalf of a woman‐dominated workforce and local students, families, and communities, many of whom experience racial and economic disparity. I show that educators' social justice unions have tended to coherently employ intersectional language to articulate student, family, and community need along …
White Parent and Caregiver Perceptions of, and Resistance to, Equity and Anti-Racism Work in an Independent School
Background: Between early 2020 and today, our society has experienced a distressing global pandemic, horrifying brutalities committed against BIPOC individuals and communities, uprisings for racial justice, and a violent attack on our nation’s capital. While these events and phenomena have been challenging and traumatic, they have also inspired calls for equity-focused action within and beyond schools. Purpose: Many schools have intensified their…
Opposing Innovations
This article uses oral history, archival material, and published primary sources to examine the competing conceptions of “innovation” at work in the creation and operation of the West Philadelphia Community Free School (WPCFS) from 1969 to 1978. One of the longest-running initiatives in the School District of Philadelphia's experimental Office of Innovative Programs, the WPCFS stood at the crossroads of conflicting imperatives for “innovation.” T…
For Once We’re Asking for More Testing
This article explores organisational infrastructure in the movement for safe schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on several qualitative studies of educator organising during the pandemic, this article shows that educators across the United States have organised through a range of social movement organisations, including national grassroots networks, regional grassroots networks, unions, social justice caucuses, and building-based commit…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)