Journal article
‘Hacking at our very roots’: Rearticulating White racial identity within the context of teacher education
Race Ethnicity and Education, Vol.9(3), pp.261-274
2006
Abstract
When teaching about race and racism and how we as ‘Whites’ are implicated in the discursive practices that sustain racism, we are indeed ‘hacking at the very roots’ of the ways in which students have conceptualized their identity in terms of being non‐racialized and at the same time non‐racist. In this paper I focus on the challenges and possibilities of working with teacher education students—most of whom are White—to critically deconstruct Whiteness as part of the larger project of anti‐racism. While I draw on students’ comments, in quite fundamental ways this paper is about my own—rather than students’—learning experiences. After a decade of re‐evaluating my pedagogy, the anecdotal evidence as well as results from more formal evaluations would suggest that my strategies have become increasingly effective in assisting students to work through their resistances. It is the paper’s conclusion that ‘teaching against the grain’ is likely to continue to be unpopular with some students but that education that purports to have an anti‐racism focus must incorporate an experiential component despite the discomfort this may cause.
Details
- Title
- ‘Hacking at our very roots’: Rearticulating White racial identity within the context of teacher education
- Authors/Creators
- N. Aveling (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Race Ethnicity and Education, Vol.9(3), pp.261-274
- Publisher
- Routledge as part of Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 991005543524707891
- Copyright
- 2006 Taylor & Francis
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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