Fraying the Fabric/s of Critical Pedagogy: Reality Checking Around Race, Ethics, and Practice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this session, panelists engage in “fraying” and “re-weaving” critical pedagogy to address issues of race and gender oppressions that are not adequately addressed in Paulo Freire’s philosophy. Modeling collaborative research practices, each paper foregrounds an interrogation of: 1) chronic anti-Blackness commonly found among prolific scholars in critical pedagogy that silences the global impact of colonization on education; 2) the integration of critical pedagogy as a call to radically love and live as professionals; 3) the inseparability of class and race analysis for re-envisioning an unjust educational system; and 4) generating custom-fit praxes to afford ethical integrity beyond the classroom. Panelists intentionally pull apart threads of white male voices and reweave diverse epistemological and ethical tapestries with more inclusive functions.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipation

Chair

• Tricia M. Kress, Molloy College

Papers

• Surviving Critical Pedagogy: The Global Impact of Colonization and Antiblackness - Perpetual Hayfron, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Radically Loving and Living: Integrating and Interrogating Critical Pedagogy - Siobahn Mulligan, University of Massachusetts - Boston; Nadia Khan-Roopnarine, Molloy College; Thomas Rizzuto, Molloy College

• Foregrounding "Critical Race Pedagogy": Empowering Students to Change the Status Quo - Carolyn Edwards, University of Massachusetts - Boston

• Critical Pedagogy for Ethical Integrity: From Academia to Practice - Bethy Verano, University of Massachusetts - Boston; Nicholas Vasilliades, Molloy College

Discussant

• Patricia Krueger-Henney, University of Massachusetts at Boston