Black Gaze Framework: Centering and Celebrating Blackness in Teacher Education for Liberation

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fifteen
  In Roundtable Session: Centering Blackness in Education (Table 7)

Abstract

Black Gaze Framework (BGF) is a promising pathway to center and celebrate Blackness in teacher education for liberation. We provide an overview of anti-Blackness within education, share the BGF, and apply that framework to teacher education. Like BlackCrit, BGF calls for “the specificity of the Black” (Dumas and ross, 2016) and moves into action to center Blackness for liberation in education. BGF has five tenets: Honoring the O.G.’s: Black History & Wisdom; Elevating Our Stories: Black Multifaceted Experiences; Preaching Points: Action Steps for Black Folx; What You Reading, Though?: Black Thought Past & Present; and I See You!: Black Acknowledgement & Elevation.

Authors

• Kisha M Porcher, University of Delaware
  Presenting Author

• Shamaine Bertrand, The College of New Jersey
  Presenting Author