Experience Is the Best Teacher: Black Women Preservice Teachers’ Engagement With Emancipatory Pedagogy

• In Event: Building Emancipatory Spaces: Black Educators and Transformative Pedagogies in Social Studies Education

Abstract

This critical qualitative case study explores the interconnected relationship between Black feminist epistemology and emancipatory pedagogy via two Black female pre-service secondary social studies teachers’ curricular choices, ideological stance, and praxis for the classroom. Findings suggest that experiences as feminist and critical pedagogues were important for fighting oppression and understanding the notion of positionality was essential in disrupting dominant narratives.

Authors

• Jazmin Claxton, University of Texas at Austin

• Cinthia S. Salinas, University of Texas at Austin

• Perri Sweed, University of Texas at Austin