Teaching Palestine: Praxes of Transgression and Possibility

• In Event: Palestinian Liberation and Solidarity

Abstract

This paper explores the possibilities of teaching about Palestine in US higher education and K-12 spaces. Drawing on over two decades of teaching and learning in diverse US contexts, we consider the broader sociopolitical climate at different junctures and how it has shaped pedagogies and praxes of possibility. We lean on de/post-colonial and abolitionist theories to write about the possibilities of teaching Palestine, building on growing scholarship that contends with these dilemmas. We write from our different social and institutional locations--both public and private, undergraduate and graduate, and within different subfields of education--to contemplate the possibilities of this moment, grounded in praxes of transgression and liberation.

Authors

• Zeena Zakharia, University of Maryland

• Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College

• Roozbeh Shirazi, University of Minnesota

• Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco

• Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Gettysburg College

• Brooke Harris Garad, Butler University