“Things We’ve Known Even Before Having the Words to Explain”: Critical Affective Pedagogies of Teachers of Color (Poster 27)

• In Event: Excellence in Education Research: Early Career Scholars and Their Work Poster Session

Abstract

The affective nature of how students know and respond to social injustices are central to possible forms of civic engagement, even before having formal language to articulate their civic commitments. Partnering with three teachers of Color with embodied understandings of race and power, I examine how they leverage emotions, feelings, and bodily energies as pedagogical resources for students' race-based civic sensemaking. Preliminary findings highlight the potential of critical affective pedagogies for navigating the simultaneity of multiple and, at times, conflicting perspectives that emerge during students’ civic sensemaking, and how teachers and students work together to proactively and improvisationally adapt their civic reasoning and discourse to (re)center the struggles, triumphs, and perspectives of of Black, Indigenous, People of Color.

Author

• Josephine Pham, University of California - Santa Cruz