“It’s a Calling. You Answered.”: Abbott Elementary and Viewing Audience as Ethnographer of Education

Casey Philip Wong, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Dr. Wong aims to advance justice by interrogating systems of coloniality, carcerality, and oppression in education through critical feminist, anti-colonial, and abolitionist frameworks. He investigates and develops culturally sustaining and strength-based pedagogies to teach and learn otherwise.

Jennifer Esposito, PhD is a Department Chair and Distinguished University Professor of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Her research takes an intersectional approach to qualitative research, centering race and gender. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she sees critical theories as tools to interrogate social life and solve problems related to the material consequences of oppression and privilege. She is an avid consumer of popular culture.