What have you researched about helping people of color overcome racism? What is the impact on Black and brown kids from being in a racist environment, with racist educators, and a racist curriculum? How am I enriching my awareness about working with Black and brown kids?
For Damita Public
Created by Sean
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Sean says: All the “why” — not as much “how” as I needed at the time
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Hope and healing in urban education by Shawn A. Ginwright
"[This book] proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by the erosion of hope resulting …
Sean says: After seeing Dr. Ginwright at FMFP Baltimore, I started engaging with every bit of his work I could. This gave lots of power and insight.
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Sean says: Attended a workshop with her — brilliant connection between identity and how thinking and learning actually happen.
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Sean says: The story is massively important, but the actual pedagogy was frustratingly absent from the analysis
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Sean says: Peeling back the layers on how and why disability and race are so interconnected in oppressive schools.
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Sean says: All of Darder’s work feels essential to me — but this is the one that got me really thinking way back when.
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Sean says: She says something about listening to people who have been “democratically oppressed” and whoa that has stuck with me
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Sean says: Dismiss then assimilate = subtraction. It’s about Houston and a very different context from Madison, but small scale same effects happen here.
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Sean says: The most “how” book on the list. I love a good lesson plan format template, and this book taught me one that is better than anything else I’ve ever used.
