Transforming Teacher Education Through Embodied Racial Healing Utilizing Arts-Based Multimodalities

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eighteen
  In Roundtable Session: Transforming Systems of Race and Gender in Teaching and Teacher Education (Table 11)

Abstract

Moving toward collective racial healing through embodied practices is necessary for current and future teacher educators to transform systems of education. Utilizing a theoretical framework of racial literacy development, a Black woman doctoral student, a white woman doctoral student, and a white-presenting, mixed race, queer teacher educator engaged in a doctoral seminar to embark upon a journey of collective embodied racial healing guided by Menakem’s (2017) text, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Collaborative ethnography and multimodal content analysis supported a deeper understanding of the data collection of arts-based multimodal compositions in response to Menakem’s text to support embodied racial trauma healing as a necessary foundation for developing anti-racist future teachers.

Authors

• Rae L. Oviatt, Eastern Michigan University
  Presenting Author

• Sharon Hopkins, Eastern Michigan University
  Presenting Author

• Kat Naish, Ferndale School District
  Presenting Author