For those of us who teach about systemic racism, white privilege, and white supremacy as culture, policy, and foundational to social institutions, the bulk of our time spent supporting each other and discussing pedagogy focuses on difficult moments, attacks on our teaching, and all kinds of ugly stuff that can occur (and has). It gets to …
Anyone who was willing to click on this post is likely aware of recent and not so recent public policy attacks on critical race theory. A former President of the U.S. tried to order critical race theory into silence. State legislative actions continue to work toward banning discussion of white privilege, racism, and systemic white …
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Part 5: Why is anti-racist pedagogy so threatening? Read More »
Full disclosure. I am white. When I get my blood drawn, I usually joke with the nurse that I am translucent. So pretty white. And yet, I am doing my best to offer up a list of some of the essential core elements of an anti-racist pedagogy. Make no mistake, I am missing a lot …
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Part 4: Core Elements of ARP (according to this white girl) Read More »
What harm are we doing? Because my life allows for wonderful things, I recently read bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress for the third time. Although published in 1994, the wisdom in her work still rings true. Her timeless observations about liberatory critical pedagogies highlighted that little has shifted. As I was reading, one passage inspired …
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Part 3: Teaching Silence and Culture vs. Critiquing Systems Read More »
We all want to be “inclusive. Nothing wrong with that. You may have picked up on the trend that diversity focuses on recruitment and maybe representation, but that we need to move deeper for inclusion. Same goes for inclusion being a wonderful shift in education, but we need a more critical approach to power and …
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Part 2: Inclusive does not equal anti-racist Read More »
As I mentioned in previous posts and my recent workshops, academic use of the phrase “anti-racist pedagogy” (ARP) has sky rocketed since George Floyd’s death. Summer 2020 brought a wave of white academics calling for curricular transformation, many in response to student demands, to infuse anti-racism. And yet, if I asked 50 people what they …
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Part 1: Do we even know what anti-racist pedagogy means? Read More »
Shattering Myths of Education and Embracing Growth In the next few blog posts, I will explore various considerations for educators working to bring more anti-racist pedagogy into their practices. This first post on student reactions to learning about privilege is not a new one, but still stands as quite relevant to today’s classrooms. On December …
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Series: Learning about Privilege Read More »
