Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education
Dispatches from the Field
Arlo Kempf editor Heather Watts editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:12th Mar '24
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Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education shows how K-12 schooling continues to produce and maintain white supremacist and colonial logics and questions the alternate future of schooling in Canada.
It argues that white supremacy and race in schooling are present in colonial-centered approaches to teacher education, formal and informal exclusion through curriculum development, and persistent failed commitments to racial justice and decolonization. These themes guide the organization of this collection, which is further underpinned by theoretical perspectives, including critical race theory, anti-Blackness theory, abolition, and anticolonial theory. Contributions are drawn from classroom teachers, community educators, and pre-service teacher educators and are powerfully informed by first-hand accounts as well as stories of teachers and teacher candidates.
Combining theory with practice, this edited volume will be important reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in social justice education, multicultural education, and Indigenous studies. It will also be beneficial reading for antiracist and Indigenous education researchers, as well as policymakers and practitioners within critical education.
"This collection explores topics that are familiar and central to those who study social justice education with refreshingly unique scholarly voices and approaches that integrate the personal and the pedagogical. A fantastic teaching resource that will open up conversations in classrooms and within professional development reading groups."
- Özlem Sensoy, Professor and Faculty Chair of Education
"In this age of Conservative takeover of public education, Arlo Kempf and Heather Watts’ new edited collection, Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education: Dispatches from the Field, is a powerful indictment of White Supremacy and its impact on schooling and education. We cannot have a democracy founded on racism and then ask us critical educators to be color blind. Let there be no doubt that race is about White Supremacy and the ‘expectations of Whiteness’ with its conformity, regulation, policing, surveillance, disciplining, and punishment of different bodies. The best antidote to fighting educational injustice and inequities in schooling and education is not only to speak about social justice but also to embark on concrete educational practice for human liberation. As educators, this book gives us food for thought that by not fighting White supremacy we perpetuate racism, gaslighting, and anti-woke fantasies in our school systems. It is a must-read for all serious about the education of young learners with a willingness and sincerity to do something fundamental and to create new educational futurities for all."
-George J. Sefa Dei, Professor of Social Justice Education and Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies, OISE, University of Toronto
ISBN: 9781032498591
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Weight: 1120g
264 pages