Enacting Antiracism and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education: Canadian Perspectives

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Supporting White Educators to Become Antiracist and Transformative Educators (Table 31)

Abstract

This body of work offers a diverse collection of the complexities, challenges, sites of resistance and possibilities that Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) faculty encounter while teaching antiracism within settler-colonial Canadian teacher education programs. Our work draws from Dei’s (1996) definition of antiracism as “an action-oriented educational practice to address the interstices of difference in the education system” (p. 240). This work challenges the pedagogical, structural, curricular, and institutional underpinnings of teacher education framed by whiteness. Our work seeks to disrupt normalcy by unpacking, dismantling the hierarchies, intersectionalities and positionalities of knowledge production through transformative antiracist epistemologies.

Authors

• Zuhra Abawi, Niagara University - Ontario

• Ardavan Eizadirad, Wilfrid Laurier University

• Andrew B. Campbell, University of Toronto