ERIC Number: EJ1242283
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 20
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Fleshing out Enactments of Whiteness in Antiracist Pedagogy: Snapshot of a White Teacher Educator's Practice
Pedagogy, Culture and Society, v28 n1 p17-36 2020
This article paints a partial portrait of a White, antiracist, university-based teacher educator in the United States, and provides a snapshot of her antiracist pedagogy in practice. This snapshot is juxtaposed against (her own and others') theorising of antiracist pedagogy. Using reflexivity as methodology, I pay attention to my noticings of my participant's antiracist pedagogy as evidenced through her navigation of a racialised, affectively charged classroom encounter involving the teacher educator, a Black student, and me, a Black researcher. I analyze the embodied and affective aspects of that experience through a racialised lens and find that the teacher educator's (re)actions represent an enactment of Whiteness. The enactment relates to the enfleshed material body. Thus, I contend that the development of an antiracist pedagogy that moves beyond rhetoric in resisting rather than reinforcing Whiteness -- and therefore, that contributes meaningfully to racial justice -- requires attunement to affects produced via interembodiment, in theory and practice.
Descriptors: Whites, Social Justice, Racial Bias, Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods, Racial Factors, African American Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Feminism, Theories, Teacher Education Programs, Emotional Response, Race, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Environment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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