Walter S. Gershon

Walter S. Gershon (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Critical Foundations of Education at Rowan University (New Jersey, United States). Dr. Gershon’s scholarly interests focus on a) questions of justice, dignity, and access about how people make sense, b) the sociocultural processes that inform their sensibilities, and c) the qualitative methods used to study educational ecologies. Walter’s work uses critical understandings in sound and the senses to consider everyday experiences of race, class, gender, and sexualities with disenfranchised city children and youth. In addition to traditional pathways for scholarship and more publicly oriented soundworks, Dr. Gershon’s awards include national recognition for single-authored books Sound Curriculum: Educational Sonic Studies in Theory, Method, and Practice (Routledge) and Curriculum and Students in Classrooms: Everyday Urban Education in an Era of Standardization (Lexington Books). Forthcoming work includes an additional two monographs, one on sonic qualitative methodologies (Routledge) and another that uses a genre-defying combination of sound and text that documents everyday urban education with responding images from Jorge Lucero (MIT Press).