The Spirit of Our Work
Black Women Teachers (re)member
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2022]
Format: Book
Description: xvii, 218 pages ; 24 cm
In The Spirit of Our Work, Dr. Cynthia Dillard centers the spiritual lives of Black women educators and their students, arguing that spirituality has guided Black people throughout the diaspora. She demonstrates how Black women teachers and teacher educators can heal, resist, and (re)member their identities in ways that are empowering for them and their students. Dillard emphasizes that any discussion of Black teachers' lives and work cannot be limited to truncated identities as enslaved persons in the Americas. The Spirit of Our Work addresses questions that remain largely invisible in what is known about teaching and teacher education. According to Dillard, this invisibility renders the powerful approaches to Black education that are imbodied and marshaled by Black women teachers unknown and largely unavailable to inform policy, practice, and theory in education. The Spirit of Our Work highlights how the intersectional identities of Black women teachers matter in teaching and learning and how educational settings might more carefully and conscientiously curate structures of support that pay explicit and necessary attention to spirituality as a crucial consideration.
Contents:
Foreword / Bettina L. Love -- Introduction -- For Those Who chose to survive: our promise to (re)member the ancestors -- My spirit (re)members me whole: the importance of black women's knowing, memory, and spirituality -- "I Was Missing something, something so Important": (Re)searching -- The evidence of Things Unseen: (Re)visioning -- A change of Mind and Heart: (Re)cognizing -- The truth Will set Us Free: (Re)presenting -- The Invitation, sanctuary, and Living Legacy: (Re)claiming -- (Re)membering Is not optional: a Love Letter to Those Who teach -- Afterword / Gholdy Muhammad -- Acknowledgments.
Subjects:
African American women teachers.
African American teachers and the community.
African Americans -- Education.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Afrocentrism.
African American women teachers.
African American teachers and the community.
African Americans -- Education.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Afrocentrism.
ISBN:
9780807013854
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Includes bibliographical references and index.