Tight Spaces: White Antiracist Teachers’ Inward and Outward Pedagogies

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Abstract

This study examines how scholar-nominated white, experienced anti-racist teachers conceptualize inward and outward pedagogies that support their resistance to white supremacy in schools. A theoretical framework of “rehumanizing praxis” informed by white supremacy logic contextualizes this project of accountable inquiry with white teachers. Drawing on critical-constructivist grounded theory, data provides insight into teachers’ inward pedagogies—orientations—and resultant outward pedagogies, concrete and visible expressions of anti-racist orientations through activism, curriculum, and “tight spaces.”

Author

• Katie Harlan Eller, Marist University