Reclaiming Histories and Reworlding Futures through an Ontological Commitment to Engaged Pedagogy and Holistic Praxis

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Abstract

This paper aims to extend the discourse on how teachers of Color who embody engaged pedagogy process the complex trauma from their individual to generational past to center emotionality in their present and reimagine a holistic praxis for the future. Interviews with women of Color teachers reveal an ontological commitment to caring for their students, because they had undergone (or are still undergoing) the process of healing. The labor of these teachers is their self-actualization, guiding students to develop their critical consciousness and cultivate their emotional literacy. Thus, teacher education programs and school districts need to consider admitting/hiring and supporting aspiring candidates and engaged pedagogues with the critical emotional literacy to center the social and emotional wellness of their students.

Author

• Yu-Chi Micki Lin, University of California - Riverside