Sankofa: A Current VP's Reflection on What We Have (un)Learned in Teaching and Teacher Education

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Abstract

Sankofa: A Current VP's Reflection.
Drawing on the Akan concept of Sankofa, “go back and fetch it”, this symposium brings together past and present Division K Vice Presidents for a conversation and reflection on this year’s Division K theme: “Honoring Educational Roots, Cultivating Teaching Futures: Reimagining Teacher Education for Collective Liberation”. Panelists will engage in collective remembering of what we have (un)learned in teaching and teacher education and interrogate tensions between dominant narratives and marginalized knowledges of historically excluded communities. The session positions unforgetting as radical resistance, calls for freedom dreaming, and urges this community to reimagine teaching and teacher education for collective liberation.

Author

• Kimberly A. White-Smith, University of San Diego