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69.037 - Critical Family History and the Novel as Tools of Whiteness Pedagogies: A Theory-to-Practice Symposium

Mon, May 1, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Floor: Second Floor, Bowie C

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This symposium explores the confluence between critical family history and the novel as tools for whiteness pedagogies in the racial conscientization of White preservice and in-service teachers. Working toward teachers’ racial conscientization, especially White preservice and in-service teachers’ racial conscientization, is more pressing in the present moment than it has ever been. Presenters in this symposium, sharing commitments to critical family history, teaching through the novel, and complex whiteness pedagogies, provide a theory-to-practice seminar. Organized around Sleeter’s pedagogical novel White Bread, all presenters in this symposium provide specific whiteness pedagogies with a special emphasis on critical family history projects in which teachers explore and study their own lives and backgrounds as a means of racial conscientization.

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