More Than a Diverse Reading List: Challenging an Antiblack Pedagogy with Dr. Philip Howard (McGill) – May 12!

More Than a Diverse Reading List: Challenging an Antiblack Pedagogy

Dr. Philip Howard, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University

When we think about challenging antiblack pedagogies, it is easy to limit our thinking to a quest for toolkits of ready-to-implement strategies. Such an approach does not take seriously the ways in which antiblackness is endemic to our institutions, the default logics that frame our work, and how these foreclose on the pedagogies we seek. This session will explore some of the ways in which antiblackness structures the university context, and foster a conversation about the commitments it might take to create the conditions of possibility for Black life and Black thought to flourish with/in/out our classrooms and institutions.

Part of Perspectives on Teaching Conference at Western University – all are welcome to attend this Keynote Presentation.