Stitching Stories: Re-membering Human Enslavement in the Elementary Classroom

In this article, I explore this question: How can teachers, especially new teachers, create school spaces that present humanizing images and stories of people who were enslaved, particularly people of African descent in the United States? To explore this question, drawing from an ethnographic study...

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Published in:The New educator 2018-04, Vol.14 (2), p.91-108
Main Author: Howard, Joy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American History
Beginning Teachers
Classrooms
Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Elementary Education
Elementary School Teachers
Elementary schools
Ethnography
Experienced Teachers
Geographic Regions
Interviews
Memory
Race
Racial Relations
Slavery
Social Studies
Teachers
Teaching Methods
United States History
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Summary:In this article, I explore this question: How can teachers, especially new teachers, create school spaces that present humanizing images and stories of people who were enslaved, particularly people of African descent in the United States? To explore this question, drawing from an ethnographic study of teachers at an elementary school in the U.S. South, I focus on two teachers, a new teacher and an experienced teacher. The concept of re-membering-reconnecting knowledge of the past that has been silenced or distorted (King & Swartz, 2015)-is centered in the analysis, in which the I propose the idea of stitching stories as a way to re-member knowledge of human enslavement in the United States.
ISSN:1547-688X
1549-9243
DOI:10.1080/1547688X.2018.1426322