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21.029 - Thinking Beyond Damage-Centered Teaching: Enacting a Humanizing Pedagogy in Teacher Education

Fri, April 5, 4:20 to 5:50pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 700 Level, Room 711

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In this symposium, a group of teacher educators in a university-based teacher preparation program draw from research and their experiences as K-12 teachers and administrators, and teacher educators to advance a humanizing pedagogy that represents a strengths-based approach to teaching and learning in the teacher preparation classroom. We push to understand how certain factors hinder social-justice oriented teachers from creating humanizing experiences for their students. In doing so, we suggest an approach, a humanizing pedagogy, to engage teacher educators that embody pedagogies and practices that counter inequities in the P-12 educational system. Each paper takes up humanizing pedagogy as it relates to four basic tenets: engaging in sustained critical self-reflection, radical honesty, resisting binaries, and enacting ontological and epistemological plurality.

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