The Answers We Seek Are Within Communities We Research: Reimagining Schooling Through Black Communal Knowledge

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together six Black women academics who will (1) articulate our understandings of challenges in Black education in the United States and (2) openly share how our research shapes our imagining of a system of schooling we are willing to struggle for. The purpose of this symposium is to share insights into how we can position our communities as the holders of the answers we seek. This session includes four papers that each discuss educating Black students from a different perspective: what teachers need to know and be able to do, how to prepare preservice teachers for Black students in urban schools, the work of Black women teachers, and the self-work of developing critical love and racial literacy.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 06:Transformations in Teacher Education Policies, Research, and Practices

Chair

• Iesha Jackson, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Papers

• Preparing Teachers to See Themselves as Part of the Village - Arnetha F. Ball, Stanford University; Iesha Jackson, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Examining Urban Teacher Preparation - Bianca J. Nightengale-Lee, Western Michigan University; Iesha Jackson, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• The Souls of Black Teachers: Spirituality as an Aspect of Black Teachers' Ontoepistemologies - Keisha McIntosh Allen, University of Maryland

• Out of the Vortex and Into Myself: The Self-Work of Unearthing Knowledge - Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Cynthia B. Dillard, Seattle University