Care in Containment: Indigenous and Black teacher lessons for everyone

• In Event: Research in Progress Roundtable Session 2
  In Invited Roundtable: Cross-National Perspective on Indigenous Education: Curriculum, Teacher Experience, and Student Displacement (Table 1)

Abstract

In this dissertation project, I conduct interdisciplinary research to understand, analyze, and share the experiences of Native, Black, and Afro-Indigenous educators navigating colonial schooling within the reservation. My partnership with Native and Black educators, those educators at the nexus of the settler colonial triad and on the front lines of the precarity birthed by settler colonialism, compel this research. In school systems that continue to be run or staffed predominately by white women, alternatively certified teachers, and bordertown residents, the experiences of the few Native and Black teachers remain underknown and undertheorized despite the potential of their insights to transform schools despite rigorous attempts to push out the very same teachers.

Author

• Anna Almore, University of Michigan