Uncovering the Coloniality of a Critical Pedagogue: An Autobiographical Approach

• In Event: Curricular Explorations of Self- and Teacher Identities

Abstract

William Pinar believes that critical pedagogues tend to reserve for themselves the agency evidently eluding everyone else. We perceive ourselves to be invincible to the power of ideology. We become teachers out of an altruistic commitment to transform the world, but we ignore that we are not immune. By reflexively facing the coloniality of my being through the use of currere, I, a Puerto Rican critical pedagogue, will explore the need for teachers to address their hidden assumptions about the world. Participants will be encouraged to engage in reflexive thinking to identify the assumptions we bring to the classroom and the ways ideology and colonialism are deeply imbedded in our own mental frameworks.

Author

• Rafael V Capó García, The University of British Columbia