Race and Pedagogy: Creating Collaborative Spaces for Teacher Transformations

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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.

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It is no secret that the most difficult conversation in our nations schools is around race and equitable educational practices. Finally, we have a book that completely understands this important idea. Adams and Buffington-Adams provide a practical collection of tools, strategies, and protocols that help educators stay in this challenging conversation and practice a more reflective, collaborative, and most importantly, equitable teaching practice. Bravo! -- Kevin Fahey, Salem State University
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. -- Thomas Kelly, John Carroll University

Author Bio

Susan R. Adams is assistant professor of secondary education in the College of Education at Butler University. Jamie Buffington-Adams is assistant professor in the School of Education at Indiana University East.