Reflections on Teaching against White Supremacy during a Time of Social Rupture and Transformation

Autor/inn/en	Fonseca, Erica; Wahab, Stéphanie
Titel	Reflections on Teaching against White Supremacy during a Time of Social Rupture and Transformation
Quelle	In: Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 21 (2021) 4, S.214-224 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1527-9316
Schlagwörter	Racial Discrimination; Racial Bias; Social Problems; Social Change; Activism; Futures (of Society); Psychological Patterns; Social Work; Social Justice; Social Environment; Political Influences; Political Issues; Change Strategies; Masters Programs; Online Courses; Oregon (Portland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Racial bias; Rassismus; Racial discrimination; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Sozialer Wandel; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Future; Society; Zukunft; Soziale Arbeit; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Soziales Umfeld; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Politischer Faktor; Lösungsstrategie; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Online course; Online-Kurs
Abstract	Social Justice and Social Work is a foundational course required for all social work students in the master's of social work program at Portland State University. Although the course has long focused on interrupting oppressions including White supremacy, teaching the course during the fall of 2020 required a nimble dance between our familiar modes of teaching and the need for spontaneous adaptation and creativity. The unique landscape for this course included teaching the course remotely (Zoom), inside a university embattled around the arming of its security force (that killed a Black man in 2018), in a city targeted by an armed federal response to the racial uprising led by Black Lives Matter, in a state with a long history of White supremacy and Black exclusion, and under a federal administration explicitly aligned with White supremacy. This paper offers a reflection of our teaching about and against White supremacy during this unique moment in time. We position our writing at the intersections of teaching and activism, of hope and uncertainty. It is from our shared commitment to the abolishment of White supremacy that the following tenets were derived, grounding our experimental teaching in complexity, complicity, and social transformation: (1) remembering for the future; (2) attending to collective grief and rage; (3) bringing the streets (racial uprising) into the classroom; and (4) repurposing the classroom for social transformation. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Indiana University. 107 South Indiana Avenue, Bryan Hall 203B, Bloomington, IN 47405. Tel: 317-274-5647; Fax: 317-278-2360; e-mail: josotl@iu.edu; Web site: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01