If You Are Not Ready, Then Step Aside: Intentionally Centering the Black Male Body in Teacher Education

Authors

Cherrel Miller Dyce, Elon UniversityFollow
Julius Davis, Bowie State UniversityFollow

Keywords

Anti-racism, Black male students, teacher education, anti-Black, maleness

Abstract

The conditions of Black male students in K-12 schools have been well-documented by scholars and clearly illustrate institutionalized anti-Black maleness that continues to go unaddressed or, in some cases, never addressed in most educator preparation programs and school systems in the U.S. We call for the centering of Black male bodies in teacher education and offer Afrocentric Assessment Mattering Pathways (AAMP) for guidance for intentionally centering the Black male body in teacher education: 1) critical anti-black self-reflection, 2) Afrocentric curricular change using Black history, and 3) engaging in off-campus Afrocentric environments.

DOI

10.15760/nwjte.2021.16.2.7

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/36482

Recommended Citation

Miller Dyce, Cherrel and Davis, Julius (2021) "If You Are Not Ready, Then Step Aside: Intentionally Centering the Black Male Body in Teacher Education," Northwest Journal of Teacher Education: Vol. 16 : Iss. 2 , Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15760/nwjte.2021.16.2.7