More Than an Ally: A Caring Solidarity Framework for White Teachers of African American Students
Autor Michael L. Boucheren Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 2020
We are in a unique historical moment that demands White teachers become more effective in their schools, classrooms, and communities and for researchers to find ways to describe those teachers who build relationships of solidarity with students. Considering today's tenor of the conversation around race, picking up this book and considering its contents is an act of defiance of the current climate, and/or one of devotion to the art and craft of teaching children.
Caring Solidarity is not a replacement for current frameworks such as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy or Abolitionist Pedagogy but is a map for White teachers to journey toward those pedagogies. Everyone starts from somewhere. The path is winding and long but the goal, to create an equitable and humane classroom, is worth the trip. The purpose of this theory is to point the way.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781475826548
ISBN-10: 1475826540
Pagini: 170
Dimensiuni: 153 x 219 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1475826540
Pagini: 170
Dimensiuni: 153 x 219 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Boucher engages race in a scholarly framework designed to guide educators through meaningful conversations with students across academic settings. Based on established theories such as critical race, critical whiteness, and multicultural understandings, this volume ushers educators through historical experiences of racial/ethnic minorities with emphasis on African Americans. In tandem with historical phenomena (e.g., slavery, disenfranchisement, discrimination), the author additionally offers insight into factors contributing to detrimental outcomes in the educational system as a result of unprepared educators (e.g., opportunity gap, educational debt, school-to-prison pipeline). Such points are addressed throughout the text. The book is well organized and supported by scholarly sources, and the epilogue successfully connects the significance of the discussion to the events of 2020. This study is notable for the author's perspective as a white, male educator. He emphasizes that the book is not intended to offer outsider commentary but rather to help white educators become meaningful, genuine allies of African American students. Considering the emergence of scholarly research and sources on the development of professional cultural competency, this text is a valuable contribution to the literature on educator preparation. Recommended.
Michael Boucher's message is clear: if you feel that teaching is your calling to "save" Black children, you need to quit while you're ahead and find another job. However, if you are willing to understand that justice-centered teaching requires the de-centering of Whiteness and a life-long commitment to self-development, then you might have a future in this line of work.
More Than an Ally takes seriously the question of how White teachers can ethically engage with African American students within a system built on racism and White Supremacy. Combining work from multicultural education, culturally relevant pedagogy, antiracism, and critical whiteness studies, Boucher boldly offers a framework and practical suggestions for educators to enter this work with eyes open to both a system built on oppression and our continued complicity with it. This challenge is serious, urgently needed, and profoundly worth every educator's time.
Teacher education must reckon with the need to prepare teachers who are not only steeped in content knowledge and capable of delivering high-quality lessons, but are also committed to being an anti-racist educator. Given that the majority of the teacher education students are white women, Michael Boucher's Caring Solidarity framework for white teachers of Black students is a much needed powerful resource to assist those of us working to bring anti-racist pedagogies and practices into the field of teacher education.
Michael Boucher's message is clear: if you feel that teaching is your calling to "save" Black children, you need to quit while you're ahead and find another job. However, if you are willing to understand that justice-centered teaching requires the de-centering of Whiteness and a life-long commitment to self-development, then you might have a future in this line of work.
More Than an Ally takes seriously the question of how White teachers can ethically engage with African American students within a system built on racism and White Supremacy. Combining work from multicultural education, culturally relevant pedagogy, antiracism, and critical whiteness studies, Boucher boldly offers a framework and practical suggestions for educators to enter this work with eyes open to both a system built on oppression and our continued complicity with it. This challenge is serious, urgently needed, and profoundly worth every educator's time.
Teacher education must reckon with the need to prepare teachers who are not only steeped in content knowledge and capable of delivering high-quality lessons, but are also committed to being an anti-racist educator. Given that the majority of the teacher education students are white women, Michael Boucher's Caring Solidarity framework for white teachers of Black students is a much needed powerful resource to assist those of us working to bring anti-racist pedagogies and practices into the field of teacher education.