Full Description
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.
Contents
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
