Toward Emancipation: Black Teachers' Implementation of a Pedagogy of Racial Realism

• In Event: 14.028 - Powerful and Emancipatory Practices of Teachers of Color

Abstract

In this paper, the author seeks to understand how black teachers use emancipatory pedagogies to prepare black students for a society where they will encounter racism at many levels. Findings indicate that black teachers sought to keep their students grounded by alerting them of the inevitability of racism, sought to interrupt the racism that their white colleagues exhibited, learned to engage in emancipatory practices from their past experiences, encouraged students to use their voices and other platforms to speak about their oppression, and engaged emancipatory pedagogies in overt and covert ways depending on the social context and the teaching context. Based on the findings of this study, the author has determined that the participants practiced a pedagogy of racial realism.

Author

• Kristen Duncan, Texas State University - San Marcos