Rehearsals for change: Exploring how arts-based educational research fosters equitable and inclusive classrooms

• In Event: Arts based educational research and imagining future(s)

Abstract

Educators in Quebec, Canada have called for support to address systemic issues of power, privilege, and marginalization in response to racism, white supremacy, and oppression in education. Combined with a lack of teacher education in the areas of equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization (EDID), these concerns are taken up in Rehearsals for Change (RfC) arts-based educational research (ABER) workshops that offer educators a place to “rehearse” new culturally responsive, identity affirming, and inclusive ways of teaching. Data includes journals, workshop observations, collages, self-reflexive interviews, and monologues illustrating the impact of the arts to open heads and hearts. Findings illustrate how an autophenomenological lens and a rehearsing for change mindset impact participant professional identities when engaging in ABER EDID workshops.

Authors

• Mindy Roberta Carter, McGill University

• Sabi Hinkson, McGill