Wrestling the elephant. Teaching as a racialized body in the social work classroom.

Autor/inn/en	Mak, Carolyn; Mucina, Mandeep Kaur; Ferguson, Renée Nichole
Titel	Wrestling the elephant. Teaching as a racialized body in the social work classroom.
Quelle	In: Advances in social work, 21 (2021) 2-3, S. 545-565 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (4) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2331-4125
DOI	10.18060/24082
Schlagwörter	Ideologie; Selbstreflexion; Schule; Lehrer; Schüler; Unterricht; Macht; Rassismus; Analyse; Fallbeispiel; Theorie; Weißer
Abstract	White supremacist ideology is the elephant in the social work classroom, negatively impacting educators' abilities to facilitate discussion and learning. One of the most effective ways to dismantle and organize against white supremacy is to politicize the seemingly benign moments that occur in the classroom that can create discomfort for students and instructors. Politicization includes identifying and addressing both the racial (micro-) aggressions that occur in the classroom and the processes and institutional policies that create complacency and lull us to sleep. In this conceptual piece, we use a Critical Race Theory (CRT) framework to understand how white supremacy perpetuates itself in the classroom, with a particular focus on whiteness as property. As well, we explore what it means to decolonize the classroom. Using a vignette based on our teaching experiences, we use these two frameworks to analyze classroom dynamics and interactions, and discuss how implications for social work education include waking from the metaphorical sleep to recognize the pernicious effects of whiteness and white supremacy. Included are practical individual teaching, relational, and systemic suggestions to enact change.
Erfasst von	Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen, Berlin
Update	2022/3