Decolonization and Disalienation: A Fanonian Approach to Teacher and Teacher Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 5:10 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  In Roundtable Session: Decolonizing Teacher Education: Cultivating Professional Growth, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, and Racial Equity in Education (Table 11)

Abstract

In this paper, a teacher educator and inservice teacher, share their collective process of conscientization (Freire, 2018) through their engagement and analysis of Frantz Fanon’s work,The Wretched of the Earth (2021) and Black Skin, White Masks' (2008). Using critical autoethnography,they outline the development of their awareness and positionality as educators dedicated to decolonizing their teaching practices. Our paper models the ways teacher educators and inservice teachers can collaborate and learn together to inform pedagogy and curriculum design. A Fanonian approach to education provides new ways of knowing that challenge the preexisting conditions of education that continue to harm and create trauma.

Author

• Crystal G Simmons, University of North Carolina - Wilmington