Pedagogies of Love to End Black Girls’ Suffering in Schools

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Inspired by a rich history of transformative approaches to teaching black youth (Woodson, 1933; Ladson-Billings, 2009; Shakur, 2016) and culturally caring pedagogies (Kohl, 1994; Duncan-Andrade, 2009; Love, 2012), this symposium explores the role of loving pedagogies within schools as a humanizing and emancipatory response to the murdering of spirits (Love, 2016; Marie 2016) that black girls experience daily. Three scholars’ critical analyses will compliment and challenge one another in understanding what it means to engage in health-based, emancipatory pedagogies alongside youth and communities. We hope to provide more grounded, critical and humanizing responses to challenges in education by examining the significance of loving black girls while engaging various theoretical frameworks and approaches to loving pedagogies.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 1: Micro-analyses of the social contexts of teaching and learning

Chair

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• On the Fascination With Flowers: An Eco-Social Examination of Resilience and Black Girl Schooling - Tiffani Marie, University of California - Berkeley

• Theorizing Black Girlhood: Expanding Black Feminism as a Pedagogy of Love for Black Girls - Ashley L Smith, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Black Girl Healing, Black Girl Space - Candice Valenzuela, University of San Francisco

Discussant

• Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia