The Hoped-For Illusions in Education and Collaboration

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 4:20 pm
  In Roundtable Session: The Development of Racial Literacies and Growth in Critical Consciousness (Table 36)

Abstract

This roundtable session highlights the shifting collaboration of five K-12 educators and teacher educators as they pursue both independent and collective growth in teaching Black histories (King, 2020) and racial literacies (Sealey-Ruiz, 2021) evolved (and is evolving) through engagement in critical collaborations and conversations. In discussion, we’ll complicate the ways our individual and group scholarship and teaching extends beyond our shared academic ancestry to chart new courses through integrated qualitative praxis that can evolve with group consciousness and individual strength. The goal of this interactive roundtable session is to attend to how teachers’ both as individuals and collective communities working to dismantle racial injustice, can forward new possibilities to dismantle racial injustice.

Authors

• Mary Adu-Gyamfi, University of Missouri

• Brianne Rose Pitts, Western Michigan University

• Dawnavyn James, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Greg Simmons, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Daniel Tulino, Stockton University