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.
Edited by:
Arlo Kempf,
Heather Watts
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 1.120kg
ISBN: 9781032498591
ISBN 10: 1032498595
Series: Critical Perspectives on Teaching and Teachers’ Work
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 12 March 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
,
Undergraduate
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Foreword Diane Longboat Introduction: Spatial and Abolitionist Invitations to Race and Field Arlo Kempf Part One: Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Education and Learning Chapter One: Un/found/ed Amanda Buffalo Chapter Two: Deconstructing the ""Other"": Truth-Telling as Reconciliation Heather Watts Chapter Three: Teacher Unions and Anti-Racism: Professional Development and Learning in a Neoliberal Society Olivia Darwin Chapter Four: We Are All Racists: Calling Out and Undoing Whiteness in Teacher Education Jessalynn Tsang & Ardavan Eizadirad Part Two: Unsettling Curriculum Chapter Five: What's Wrong with the Alternative Curriculum Cecilia Cheung Chapter Six: The Persistence of Multicultural Rhetoric in Curriculum: An Analysis of the Changes to the Grade 10 History Curriculum From 1973 to 2018 Serothy Ramachandran Chapter Seven: Indigenous Linguicide: An Ongoing Canadian Project Scarlett Jean Louise Mackay Chapter Eight: When Aunties Speak: Political Listening Matters Clelia Rodriguez Part Three: The Mask of Multiculturalism Chapter Nine: A Meta-analysis of Multicultural Education as a Tool for Colonial Violence in Canadian Schools Meagan Hamilton Chapter Ten: School as a Raceless Institution; The Operations of Multiculturalism on the Invisibilizing of Black Youth Verne Hippolyte-Smith Chapter Eleven: Multiculturalism in Contemporary Canadian School Boards Vinuja Sritharan Part Four: Constructions and Reconstructions Chapter Twelve: The Nexus of Post-Racialism, White Supremacy, and Misogynoir in Education Destiny Mae Ramos-Alleyne Chapter Thirteen: Deconstructing Chinese International Students’ Silence: Critical Race Theory, White Supremacy, and Modern Minority Myth Hong Shu Chapter Fourteen: The Humanizing and Liberatory Violence of Authentic Race Discussions Joe Pack Conclusion: Dispatches from a Field of the Past Heather Watts Contributor Bios Index"
Arlo Kempf is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada. Heather Watts is a third-year doctoral student in social justice education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada.
Reviews for Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education: Dispatches from the Field
"""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 colour 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 embark in concrete educational practice for human liberation. As educators, this book gives us food for thought that by not fight 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 & Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies, OISE, University of Toronto"
