Black Schools, Black Teachers: Understanding a Legacy of Black Educators and Black Educational Practice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Responding to the on going “crisis” in education, this symposium provides compelling analyses about race and education, including practical examples of educational possibilities. The authors in this symposium examine African American educators and African American educational practices as distinct, but often overlooked, contributors to the larger educational landscape. Ranging from conceptual and empirical analyses about the unique qualities of African American pedagogy and African American schooled spaces to examinations of current Black educators’ educational and teacher training experiences, the authors in this symposium draw our attention to educational discourses and endeavors that require further consideration and whose inclusion within contemporary dialogues may yield needed insights into the “problems” of education and into untapped options for their resolution.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Section 10: Teaching and Teacher Education Policy (teacher certification, alternative routes to licensure, institutional accreditation) and Research

Cosponsor

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• Maxine Ramona McKinney de Royston, University of California - Berkeley

Papers

• Improvisation Within Structure: Making Visible the Polyrhythms of Black Educational Practice - Maxine Ramona McKinney de Royston, University of California - Berkeley

• Conceptualizing Black Space in Education - Kihana Miraya Ross, University of California - Berkeley

• She Was Doing What She Knew: Mrs. Paige and the Successful Black Pedagogy She Learned in the Segregated South - Jarvis Ray Givens, University of California - Berkeley

• The Changing Color of Teaching: Understanding the Barriers and Possibilities for Increasing the Black Teaching Workforce - Tia C. Madkins, The University of Texas at Austin

Discussants

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Jerome E. Morris, University of Georgia