In Pursuit of Healing:
A Scholar Practitioner’s Journey Through Research
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In an attempt to tackle issues of racism in the U.S. public education system, school districts throughout the country are paying particular attention to how teachers and educational leaders are trained and supported to address issues of racial disparities.
As a result of this, there has been a diffusion of various anti-bias and racial literacy-based trainings in some of the largest school systems.
This dissertation explores a case study of a unique racial literacy and healing professional development (PD) workshop series within the NYC Department of Education, which was offered to a group composed predominantly of educators of Color.
This inquiry was primarily concerned with how the educator of the professional development workshop series designed a healing-centered pedagogy, how the educator enacted such a pedagogy, and the affordances of such an approach.
A number of qualitative research methods—including contemplative inquiry—helped to understand how this professional learning experience enabled participants to engage in a healing praxis. The PD curriculum structured opportunities for participant to deploy a two-pronged healing praxis, which combined racial literacy and critical consciousness on one side, and healing and self-care on the other.
This work finds a home in the coming wave of scholarship and cannon that considers healing within the context education as an urgent matter.
The central aim is that this work finds a home in the coming wave of scholarship and cannon that takes healing in education so seriously that we clamor to quantify it.
