Decolonized School Counseling as a Requisite for Black Student Empowerment and Achievement

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: School Counseling to Promote the Success of Black Youth: Critical Reflections on Theory and Praxis

Abstract

Promoting “mindsets and behaviors” (ASCA, 2014) for academic success is a school counseling mandate. However, as school counselors are implored to implement culturally relevant approaches to achieve the aforementioned outcomes, the epistemological foundation (e.g., Eurocentric worldview) upon which the profession is founded remains shrouded. Decolonized school counseling recognizes this and encourages Black students to use their critical consciousness to expose the colonial origins of schooling and school counseling as a way of wielding their own power (Love, 2019).

Author

• Ahmad Rashad Washington, University of Louisville