Good Moves for Bad Habits: Interrupting Normative Practice To Disrupt Racialized Inequity

[摘要] Racializedgapsineducationareproducedbynormativeteaching,which describesthepracticesofthemajorityofteachers,themajorityofthetime.Yet,teachersclaimignoranceandinnocenceintheproductionofinequity,leadingtraditionalapproaches tofocusonracialbeliefs.Instead,Isuggestthatnormativeteachingpractices are theenactmentofracismand bestunderstoodashabitsofwhiteness.Whitenessisasystemofexclusiondesignedforthepurposeofdomination.Habitsareactionsandbehaviorsthatareenactedwithoutconsciousthought.Habitsofwhitenessarewaysofbeingorientedtowardssocialandeconomicdominancethatareroutine,default,andautomatic.Fortunately,thereisaprocessfor interveningonhabits.Thisresearchfocusesontwosteps:raisingawarenessoftheharmdonebynormativeteachingandidentifying,naming,anddescribingalternativeteachingmoves.Interruptinghabitsisasteptowardsdisruptingracializedinequityineducation.

[发布机构] University of Michigan

[效力级别] Practice based teaching

[关键词] Habits of whiteness;Practice based teaching;Racialized inequity;teaching across difference;white teachers;Education;Social Sciences;Educational Studies