Straight Outta (but not of) Suburbia: Reflecting & Projecting On Black Teacher & Student Experiences

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 1:45 pm - Gold 3
  In Roundtable Session: Learning to Teach, Teaching to Liberate: Black Teachers and Pedagogical Freedom

Abstract

Authors G and A spent their K-12 schooling in suburban schools and now teach in similar environments. They use personal narratives to illustrate factors contributing to their praxis and pedagogies as Black educators. Assembling a theoretical framework from fictive kinships, Insulated Praxis, and Black Liberatory Educational Subversion (BLES), G and A pursue a more nuanced and holistic view of the suburban Black teacher experience by proposing to create and hold a retreat to serve as an insulated space for Black suburban educators to reflect on the relationship between praxis and Black identity in suburban spaces. G and A believe this scholarship is crucial to support Black teachers and, by extension, suburban Black K-12 youth.

Authors

• Tamra Gertrude Jenkins, University of the Pacific

• Andre Tyrece Carter, University of San Francisco