Rehearsals for Change: Engaging in Meaningful Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teacher Education

Session Type: Virtual Symposium

Abstract

This presentation features teacher educators working on an arts-based project in Montreal, Quebec, Canada that challenges white supremacist settler-colonial modes of knowing using arts-based methods to address equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). This presentation examines how the researchers are reflexive in their research process and build relationships with communities impacted by white supremacy and settler-colonialism in order to learn from their expertise. This panel's objectives are to explore the possibilities of decolonization from the perspectives of Black and white teacher educators, consider how narrative, autoethnography, and arts-based and affective methodologies can be used in EDI initiatives, and explore ways of interrogating positionalities and identities to create more equitable futures and meaningfully engage with preservice teachers, students, and communities.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 03: Teachers’ Lives, Identities, and Journeys

Chair

• Dayna McLeod, McGill University

Papers

• Smallest Circles First: Using Drama Education and Theater to Explore Reconciliatory Praxis - Mindy Roberta Carter, McGill University

• In Quebec, Canada, White Supremacy Is Often the System That Governs "Good Schools" - Sabi Hinkson, McGill University

• The Dismantling Journey: Our Research/Our Teaching/Our Institutions Practices - Claudia Mitchell, McGill University

• Responding With Resistance to Antiblack Racism in Canada and the Oppression of First Nations Individuals and Communities on Turtle Island - Emmanuel Tabi, McGill University

Discussant

• Relebohile Moletsane, University of KwaZulu-Natal