Toward Embodied Humanizing Pedagogies: Duo-Ethnographically Re-Membering Corporeal Pedagogical Encounters in Social Justice Teacher Education

• In Event: 51.079 - MTCC Roundtable Session 22
  In Roundtable Session: 51.079-2 - The Complexities of Preparing Social Justice Educators

Abstract

In this paper, we dream of a “humanizing space” in teacher education, and conceptualize what this may look, sound, and feel like. Using critical theories on race, racialized memories, affects, and assemblages, we engage in an duoethnographic examination of how we have grappled alongside our preservice teachers with the racialized, (inter)embodied, emotional facets of teaching and learning. Our findings illuminate how research and practice geared toward the materialization of this humanizing space may be shaped by engaging our memories of the (corporeal) experiences of oppression in the context of our work as pedagogues. This adds to knowledge regarding how researchers and practitioners may innovate pedagogically in a post-truth era, and in alignment with principles of social justice.

Authors

• Sherry Lynn Deckman, Lehman College, CUNY

• Esther O. Ohito, Rutgers University