Articulating a Feminist Framework for Antiracist Teaching: A Feminist Phenomenological Study of Antiracist Teacher Educators

• In Event: 47.095 - MTCC Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: 47.095-6 - Troubling the Water: Innovative Epistemologies for Teacher Education

Abstract

I pivot away from the White, Western, androcentric gaze in this feminist phenomenological inquiry, which probes the antiracist teaching of a racially diverse group of women comprised of three teacher educators. I then use themes drawn from participants’ knowledges to articulate a feminist framework for antiracist teaching. Based upon data analysis, I propose that such a framework calls for teaching that recognizes and responds to the relationships between and among: 1) race and childhood memories; 2) race and family histories; and 3) race and embodiment. In my consideration of implications, I discuss the affordances of this framework for teacher preparation that aims to disrupt the perpetuation of racism in schools and society in a post-truth era.

Author

• Esther O. Ohito, Rutgers University