Date

4:30pm–6:00pm, Fri May 2, 2025

Event Details

Join us for the EDEF Monthly Talk : “Critical Pragmatism and the Design of ‘Problem-Solving Publics’“

Friday, May 2nd, 2025, from 4:30 – 6:00 PM in Wist 233.

Dr. Jenna Keiko Teruya, high school teacher and lecturer in Educational Administration at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, will be our speaker.

Join us to explore the intersection of policy and practice, how policies are shaped and reshaped by the interactions between a policy’s environment, its evolution over time, and teachers’ critical role as policy agents. Dr. Jenna Keiko Teruya’s dissertation, Teachers as Policy Agents: Enacting the Professional Learning Community Policy as an Agentic, Ecological Process, draws from policy studies, teacher agency, organizational change theory, and Foucauldian governmentality. Grounded in the voices of teachers, including the researcher herself, this study examines the enactment of a Professional Learning Communities (PLC) policy, revealing how policy ecology and internal frameworks influence teachers’ perceptions and agency. The research highlights varied enactments—from engagement to resistance—and the challenges within a static policy landscape.

Pizza will be provided! Please RSVP to help us plan accordingly.