Deepening the Discourse on Black Educators’ Experiences and Pedagogy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The goal of this session is to interrogate the complexities of black women educators’ experiences in public and private school settings. Scholars will present cogent arguments that reveal how current narratives about black women’s roles in American schooling are incomplete; presenters will also extend existing scholarship on Black women educators by discussing new historical and contemporary studies that add complexity to the current literature on Black educators. Drawing on historical and contemporary perspectives, the papers will provide insight into how black women educators have worked to find creative solutions to uplifting and nurturing Black children – sometimes successfully and sometimes not. The panel includes two historical papers, one qualitative study, and one self-study.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• Saundra Murray Nettles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers

• Education for the Next Generation: Nellie Rathbone Bright - Erika Kitzmiller, Harvard University

• Dialogical Spaces: Innovative Practices and the Development of the Alternative Black Curriculum in Social Studies, 1890-1940 - Alana D. Murray, University of Maryland

• Positional Frustration: Brown’s Unintended Impact on the Racial Uplift Component of Black Teachers’ Pedagogy - Summer Carrol, Lenoir-Rhyne University

• A Self-Study of a 21st-Century Black Woman Science Educator - Vanessa Diane Dodo Seriki, Loyola University Maryland

Discussant

• Adrienne D. Dixson, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign