Enacting anti-racist and activist pedagogies in teacher education : Canadian perspectives

Eizadirad, Ardavan. (Added Author). Abawi, Zuhra E. (Added Author). Campbell, Andrew B. (Added Author).

Summary: "This volume provides a diverse collection of the complexities, challenges, spaces of resistance, and possibilities faculty, specifically Black, Indigenous and racialized faculty encounter while teaching for antiracism in Canadian teacher education programs. By challenging the pedagogical, curricular, structural, and institutional underpinnings of teacher education framed by whiteness, the book seeks to disrupt white normalcy by unpacking, dismantling the hierarchies, intersectionalities, positionalities and knowledge production through transformative antiracist pedagogies. The text underscores education as a contested space, a space of oppression and violence whereby racialized epistemologies, ontologies, and dispositions are marginalized by whiteness (Dei, 2014/2012/2006/1996). As such the text seeks out ways to re-think teacher education from an antiracist paradigm through resistance and activism in order to prepare teacher candidates as practitioners, for antiracist work with increasingly racialized students, families and communities."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781773383507 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Publisher: Toronto : Canadian Scholars, [2023]

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword -- Chapter 1: Disrupting the Weaponization of Difference with Intentionality: What it Means to Be an Activist and Anti-Racist Educator -- Chapter 2: Racism and Indigeneity: (En)countering and Teaching to Resistance in the Classroom -- Chapter 3: "Off-the Record": Educational Insights from Hip-Hop Cultural Workers in Canada -- Chapter 4: Forging Racial Solidarities in Education: A Duoethnography of Juxtaposing Racial Experiences -- Chapter 5: From Inshallah to Ojalá: Counter-hegemonic imaginings of an Anti-racist present -- Chapter 6: Reconciling of 'Girl' and Adulthood: Centering the Learning Experience of Black Women in the Canadian Education System -- Chapter 7: "What Is the Right Thing?": Pre-service Teacher's Concerns and Aspirations in Anti-racist Practice -- Chapter 8: Beyond the Teacher Diversity Gap: Teacher Inauthenticity as Illusory Performance -- Chapter 9: Ethnodramatic Inqueery: Queering Arts-Based Research -- Chapter 10: My Name is Sunandha, Not Sunny: Exploring the Colonization and Assimilation of Tamil Names in the Classroom -- Chapter 11: Transformative Learning and Leadership: White teachers' Journey for Becoming an Anti-Racist/Activist -- Chapter 12: Disrupting Anti-Racist Educational Experiences for Black Students through Decolonization and Sensemaking in Teacher Education Programs -- Chapter 13: A Love Letter to Activists -- Chapter 14: Decentering Whiteness in Teacher Education Programs: Seeing Beyond the Guise of 'Diversity and Inclusion' -- Chapter 15: Dear community of Anti-Racist Activist Educators -- About the Editors-- About the Contributors.