Experiments in the Classroom: Abolition, Care, Community Building, and Ungrading

Jessica Hatrick; Gabriel Shen

doi:10.1525/esr.2025.48.1.62

Experiments in the Classroom: Abolition, Care, Community Building, and Ungrading

Jessica Hatrick, Gabriel Shen

School of International Communications

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Abstract

The authors—one faculty member and one undergraduate student—discuss the experiences and outcomes of a course designed around interrogating police, prisons, and carcerality. The paper describes course design and shares reflections on the benefits and challenges of ungrading, power-sharing pedagogies, and care labor. The authors share a course syllabus as pedagogical artifact. This contribution is part of the Abolitionist Pedagogies “distributed special issue” series.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	62-87
Journal	Ethnic Studies Review
Volume	48
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2025.48.1.62
Publication status	Published - Apr 2025

Keywords

abolitionist pedagogy
care labour
carcerality
ungrading
police
prison
media
critical university studies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Education

UN SDGs

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