A Pedagogy for Black People: Why Naming Race Matters

Autor/in	Kirkland, David E.
Titel	A Pedagogy for Black People: Why Naming Race Matters
Quelle	In: Equity & Excellence in Education, 54 (2021) 1, S.60-67 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-5684
DOI	10.1080/10665684.2020.1867018
Schlagwörter	African American Students; Race; Racial Identification; Consciousness Raising; Critical Theory; Culturally Relevant Education; Racial Discrimination + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Rasse; Abstammung; Bewusstseinsbildung; Kritische Theorie; Racial bias; Rassismus
Abstract	This article suggests pedagogical naming matters to the education of Black people. It refuses the idea of a universalist pedagogy for all, and thereby unmasks that which has been rendered invisible in teaching and learning, i.e., the Black self--so as to recover it so that it might be nurtured. In doing so, the article illuminates an important set of elements that a pedagogy for Black people must possess--such as a rootedness in a freedom that goes beyond justice; the development of critical consciousness, or "wokeness"; and a value for Black life and Black lives--answering Dumas's (2010) question, what is "Black" in Black education? It concludes by suggesting that Black education must hold in place the possibility for Black futures without clinging to "an organic Black conservativism" that mythologizes and tragically over-romanticizes a fictive Black past. Thus, even when looking back, a pedagogy for Black people must always peer forward while simultaneously resisting the impulse for erasure, where race gets lost in the muddling stew of pluralism, or what is considered here to be false collectivism. By this, a pedagogy for Black people is about Black people, useful for the social, emotional, intellectual, physical, and political emancipation of not only the bruised Black body but also the tethered Black souls. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01