We're Breathing! Black Female CritTeacher Educators in Historical Pandemic Moments

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium highlights the lived epistemological experiences of five female critical race teacher educators representing the African diaspora during 2020 COVID-19 and race movements. These Black female professors, ranging in rank and institution-type, use culturally responsive and humanizing pedagogies to prepare and develop pre/in-service teachers and leaders. Using a multi-autoethnographic matrix, Black feminism in qualitative inquiry, these scholars discuss their instructional and institutional experiences through the intersectionality prism of race, gender and class during health and anti-black racism pandemics. Through interlocking and diverging experiences, these scholars offer insights into their leadership acumen and resistance capital, and how they manufactured pathways to galvanize justice-oriented frameworks for teachers, teacher leaders, and candidates.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research on Women and Education

Chair

• Darlene Russell, William Paterson University

Papers

• Navigating Tensions Between Curriculum as Lived and Curriculum as Planned - Christine Wanjiku Nganga, The George Washington University

• Collective Liberation: Enacting Culturally Responsive Pedagogy to Create Cycles of Empowerment Within Urban Communities - Tabora A. Johnson, Medger Evers College - CUNY

• Showing Up With Family: Navigating Culturally Relevant Sustaining Professional Development During the Pandemics - Michelle G. Knight-Manuel, Teachers College, Columbia University

• How Black Women Navigate Higher Education and Community-Engaged Scholarship in a Blacdemic - Tonya B. Perry, The University of Alabama - Birmingham

Discussant

• Salika A. Lawrence, The College of New Jersey