Race and Pedagogy

Creating Collaborative Spaces for Teacher Transformations

By (author) Susan R. Adams, Jamie Buffington-Adams

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Publication date:

04 April 2016

Length of book:

120 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498511162

In the United States, higher rates of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans fail to graduate from high schools than Caucasians. Adams and Buffington-Adams identify persistent, institutional racism as the cause, and they stress the need for teachers to acknowledge the limitations of their own cultural lenses and to recognize the validity of others’ views. Race and Pedagogy provides a retrospective glance at the authors’ experiences within the Equity Group, an organization created to provide teachers with the opportunity to talk about their own racial, cultural, and language backgrounds in order to identify, examine, and fix the failings of the current educational system. Natural, relational, and sustainable approaches are recommended which will enable educators to create classrooms and schools in which all students, regardless of racial, ethnic, or linguistic identity, are welcomed, challenged, treasured, and able to be academically successful. Book recommended for scholars of education and race studies, as well as practitioners.

Introduction: Why Race Still Matters and Must Be Addressed by Educators

Chapter One: Background and Theoretical Underpinnings of the Teaching for Educational Equity (TFEE) Seminar

Chapter Two: The Equity Group: What It Did and How the Group Worked

Chapter Three: Creation and Implementation of the Collaborative Affinity Mapping Analytic (CAMA)

Chapter Four: Curricular and Pedagogical Implications: Action, and Application

Conclusion: Getting Real

Epilogue: Susan’s Reflection

Amid the opportunities and controversies that democratic life inevitably raises, this absorbing book vividly illuminates trust-enhancing processes that nurture honest, collaborative, and self-critical teacher reflection in relation to pedagogical practices that are judiciously learner-centered, productively race-conscious, and keenly sensitive to systemic dynamics. Race and Pedagogy offers an immensely valuable contribution to the lives of educators.