Teaching History Through a Critical Pedagogy of Place: Reimagining History Education Outside the Classroom

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Abstract

Investing in and growing the next generation of teachers of Color is an essential step toward remediating and repairing the teacher pipeline in America, particularly given the historical exclusion and purposeful displacement of Black and other educators of Color in the twentieth century. Using photovoice as a tool for data gathering and analysis, this paper presents the counterstory of one particular middle school social studies teacher whose visual and verbal narratives detail her experiences taking history outside of school walls. Her visual counterstory presents a critical pedagogy of place, one wherein learning history in and from the city is a valued and centralized curricular endeavor.

Authors

• Laura Krystal Porterfield, Rutgers University - Newark

• Carol R. Rinke, Marist College

• Deborah Bartley-Carter, Montclair State University

• Lynnette Mawhinney, Rutgers University - Newark

• Christina Wright Fields, Marist College