Shifting the Gaze: Honoring the OG's in Math and Literacy Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 11:40 am Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  In Roundtable Session: Critically Examining Racializing Myths Across Disciplines and Spaces (Table 11)

Abstract

Black Gaze Framework (BGF) centers Blackness in teacher education for liberation. We provide an overview of anti-Blackness within education, BGF, and apply it to teacher education. BGF has five tenets and we focus specifically on tenet one, Honoring the O.G.’s: Black History & Wisdom to advocate for looking to the wisdom of our O.G’s for guidance to center Blackness as liberation in teacher education, specifically math and literacy education. This tenet centers and teaches Black scholars, activists, and theorists as foundational knowledge in teacher education (math and literacy teacher education courses), to prepare preservice teachers to teach Black students.

Authors

• Kisha M Porcher, University of Delaware

• Shamaine Bertrand, The College of New Jersey

• Brittany L. Marshall, San Diego State University

• Crystal M. Watson, Miami University (OH)