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What's Self-Love Got to Do With It? Proudly Owning Blackness in Teacher Education
Sun, April 24, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (2:30 to 4:00pm PDT), San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Upper Level, Room 11AAbstract
The proposed conceptual work reflects the necessity of self-love as a radical precursor to changing education. For example, Love (2019) called for teachers to address school injustices by drawing upon abolitionist traits and advised that, in order to embrace abolitionist teaching, teachers must “…matter enough to [themselves]…to fight” (p. 2). Unfortunately, many teachers do not practice self-love or mattering because they have forgotten who they are.
In this conceptual work, I consider the predicament of Black teacher candidates who hesitate to love themselves and their Blackness. With original prose, poetry, and painting, I illustrate how my experiences in Ghana precipitated a (re)membering (Dillard, 2012) of my Blackness as precious and inspired a vision for leveraging conversations with Black teacher candidates who may be reticent to value their Blackness.