Black Girlhood and Identity in Canadian Elementary Schools

Black Girlhood and Identity in Canadian Elementary Schools
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 9781040224649
ISBN-13 : 1040224644
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Girlhood and Identity in Canadian Elementary Schools by : Natasha Burford

This volume uses interviews and narratives data from self-identified Black women reflecting on their childhood in the Canadian public school system, to explore voice and agency, girlhood, and identity in Canada’s elementary schools. Exploring themes of race, gender, identity, friendship, dreams, authority, and success, the author showcases diversity in Black Canadian feminism and gives voice and agency to Black female stories that have traditionally been absent amongst the literary canon of education. An intimate and compelling scholarly exploration, it contributes to conversations around transforming the Black girl narrative in public education and will appeal to researchers, faculty, and post-graduate students with interests in race and ethnicity in education, gender studies, and multicultural education.

Black Girlhood and Identity in Canadian Elementary Schools

Black Girlhood and Identity in Canadian Elementary Schools
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1032648562
ISBN-13 : 9781032648569
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Girlhood and Identity in Canadian Elementary Schools by : Natasha Burford

"This volume uses interviews and narratives data from self-identified Black women reflecting on their childhood in the Canadian public-school system, to explore voice and agency, girlhood and identity in Canada's elementary schools. Exploring themes of race, gender, identity, friendship, dreams, authority, and success, the author showcases diversity in Black Canadian feminism and gives voice and agency to black female stories that have traditionally been absent amongst the literary canon of education. An intimate and compelling scholarly exploration, it contributes to conversations around transforming the black girl narrative in public education and will appeal to researchers, faculty, and post-graduate students with interests in race and ethnicity in education, gender studies, and multicultural education"--

The Black Girlhood Studies Collection

The Black Girlhood Studies Collection
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Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9780889616127
ISBN-13 : 0889616124
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Black Girlhood Studies Collection by : Aria S. Halliday

One of the first volumes dedicated to exploring and developing theories of Black girls and girlhoods, The Black Girlhood Studies Collection foregrounds the experiences of Black girls in Canada, the US, the Caribbean, and the African continent. This timely contributed volume brings together emerging and established scholars to discuss what Black girlhood means historically and in the 21st century, and how concepts of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality inform or affect identities of Black girls. From self-care and fan activism to political role models and new media, this interdisciplinary collection engages with Black feminist and womanist theory, hip-hop pedagogy, resistance theory, and ethnography. Featuring chapter overviews, glossaries, and discussion questions, this vital resource will evoke meaningful conversation and provide the theoretical, practical, and pedagogical tools necessary for the advancement of the field and the imagining of new worlds for Black girls.

Enacting Anti-Racist and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education Canadian Perspectives

Enacting Anti-Racist and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education Canadian Perspectives
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Publisher : Canadian Scholars
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781773383507
ISBN-13 : 1773383507
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Enacting Anti-Racist and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education Canadian Perspectives by : Ardavan Eizadirad

Enacting Anti-Racist and Activist Pedagogies in Teacher Education is a timely edited collection that examines the complexities, challenges, spaces of resistance, and possibilities when faculty—specifically Black, Indigenous, and racialized faculty—advocate and implement anti racism approaches and pedagogies in Canadian teacher education programs. Taking an explicitly critical anti-racist approach, the text challenges the pedagogical, curricular, structural, and institutional underpinnings in teacher education framed by whiteness. As a collective, the chapters explore how to disrupt white normalcy by dismantling the hierarchies in place and unpacking intersectionalities, positionalities, and knowledge production through transformative anti-racist pedagogies. Established and emerging academics, as well as field practitioners, present a holistic and nuanced understanding of anti-racism within the educational context and seek to reframe teacher education through resistance and activism, preparing teacher candidates as practitioners for anti-racist work with racialized students, families, and communities. Including key terms, discussion questions, and “toolbox” sections highlighting advice for pre-service K–12 teachers, this text is an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students in teacher education.

Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education

Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9781040003381
ISBN-13 : 1040003389
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Critical Perspectives on White Supremacy and Racism in Canadian Education by : Arlo Kempf

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.

Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media

Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781000509205
ISBN-13 : 1000509206
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media by : Susan Flynn

Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media investigates how popular media offers the potential to radicalise what and how we teach for inclusivity. Bringing together established scholars in the areas of race and pedagogy, this collection offers a unique approach to critical pedagogy by analysing current and historical iterations of race onscreen. The book forms theoretical and methodological bridges between the disciplinary fields of pedagogy, equality studies, and screen studies to explore how we might engage in and critique screen culture for teaching about race. It employs Critical Race Theory and paradigmatic frameworks to address some of the social crises in Higher Education classrooms, forging new understandings of how notions of race are buttressed by popular media. The chapters draw on popular media as a tool to explore the social, economic, and cultural dimensions of racial injustice and are grouped by Black studies, migration studies, Indigenous studies, Latinx studies, and Asian studies. Each chapter addresses diversity and the necessity for teaching to include visual media which is reflective of a myriad of students’ experiences. Offering opportunities for using popular media to teach for inclusion in Higher Education, this critical and timely book will be highly relevant for academics, scholars, and students across interdisciplinary fields such as pedagogy, human geography, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, and equality studies.

Frying Plantain

Frying Plantain
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Publisher : House of Anansi
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9781487005351
ISBN-13 : 1487005350
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Frying Plantain by : Zalika Reid-Benta

Set in the neighbourhood of “Little Jamaica,” Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society. Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft.” In these twelve interconnected stories, we see Kara on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pig’s head in her great-aunt’s freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmother’s house, trying to cope with ongoing battles of unyielding authority. A rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds, Frying Plantain shows how, in one charged moment, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate, well-meaning protection can become control, and teasing play can turn to something much darker.

Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas

Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9783111552705
ISBN-13 : 3111552705
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas by : Wilfried Raussert

Resorting to life narratives as a comprehensive umbrella term and embracing hemispheric American studies paradigms, this edited volume explores the interrelations between life narratives, the social world, creativity, and different forms of media to narrate and (re)present the self to see in which way these expressions offer (new) means of (self-) representation within cultural productions from the Americas. Creativity in the context of life narratives nourishes the act of narrating and propels among others the desire to link individual life stories with larger stories of social embeddedness, conditioning, and transformation thus pushing new forms of historiography and other forms of nonfictional writing. Accordingly, the creative impulse fuses individual and collective experience with a larger understanding of the social including the latter’s local and global embeddedness. The contributions in this volume analyze the ways in which the dynamics, tensions, and reciprocities between narrative, creativity, and the social world unfold in life narratives from the Americas. In particular, this volume addresses scholars and students of life writing, cultural and literary studies, gender, disability and postcolonial studies with new insights into life narratives from the Americas.

Girlhood

Girlhood
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Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 155614511X
ISBN-13 : 9781556145117
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

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Black Girls' Literacies

Black Girls' Literacies
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9780429534607
ISBN-13 : 0429534604
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Girls' Literacies by : Detra Price-Dennis

Bringing together the voices of leading and emerging scholars, this volume highlights the many facets of Black girls’ literacies. As a comprehensive survey of the research, theories, and practices that highlight the literacies of Black girls and women in diverse spaces, the text addresses how sustaining and advancing their literacy achievement in and outside the classroom traverses the multiple dimensions of writing, comprehending literature, digital media, and community engagement. The Black Girls’ Literacies Framework lays a foundation for the understanding of Black girl epistemologies as multi-layered, nuanced, and complex. The authors in this volume draw on their collective yet individual experiences as Black women scholars and teacher educators to share ways to transform the identity development of Black girls within and beyond official school contexts. Addressing historical and contemporary issues within the broader context of inclusive education, chapters highlight empowering pedagogies and practices. In between chapters, the book features four "Kitchen Table Talk" conversations among contributors and leading Black women scholars, representing the rich history of spaces where Black women come together to share experiences and assert their voices. A crucial resource for educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, this book offers readers a fuller vision of the roles of literacy and English educators in the work to undo educational wrongs against Black girls and women and to create inclusive spaces that acknowledge the legitimacy and value of Black girls’ literacies.