49.071 - Reinventing a Feminist Freire: Woman of Color Critical Pedagogies of Love

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium explores the relationship between love and Paulo Freire’s critical praxis. Despite the culture of lovelessness, violence, and dehumanization students and teachers encounter in urban contexts, we draw upon women of color epistemologies and experiences to take on Freire’s (1998) task to teach with “a forged, invented, and well-thought-out capacity to love” (p. 3) within various learning spaces. We build upon education and feminist theories and practices to offer new pedagogical strategies to articulate, understand, and practice liberatory forms of love within school and community settings. We imagine ways love can be used as a tool to work towards spiritual healing and social justice. Ultimately, these presentations highlight the foundation of love within dialogue and justice-oriented practices within schools.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation

Chair

• Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Papers

• Teaching and Learning Toward Decolonial Love: Redefining Feminism With Young Women of Color - Jocyl Sacramento, University of California - Berkeley

• Dangerous Unselfishness: An Agape Framework of Love as a Means to Address Suffering Within Urban Communities and Schools - Tiffani Johnson

• From Punk Love to Compa (Comrade Love): Building - Sharim Hannegan-Martinez

• Mothering Pedagogy: A Labor of Love and Liberation - Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University

Discussant

• Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University