Breaking Bread: Toward Loving Critique as Praxis in Educational Discourse

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Building Brave Spaces for Truth and Equity: Activation of Critical Discourse in Theory and Praxis (Table 14)

Abstract

Love, as indexed to critique, has been the continuance of a tradition of Black struggle against oppression and toward otherwise ways of being in a United States context. If educators and researchers are serious about affirming other people's humanity and humanizing regard, then it will mean that [one] is committed to trusting and believing that [others] are forever in process. Love, in this way, is intimately bound with process. In this conceptual manuscript, the authors think with Black dialogic exchange to consider how a theory of loving critique might advance educational research and discourse. Fundamentally, the authors ask, how might Black dialogic praxis engender deeper engagement with academic teaching, research, and study practices in the service of Black possibility?

Authors

• Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Pennsylvania State University

• Caleb A. Sewell, University of Pittsburgh